So if you have sensitive DMs you'd like to erase, ask the other party to delete their DM chat history with you as well. But if both people in the DM chat delete the direct message conversation, it disappears from your Twitter archive (and likely from Twitter's servers) forever.

So even if you delete your DM history with a person, the other person you chatted with will still have a copy of your shared DM history. When that menu expands, click or tap 'Settings and Privacy.'įrom our experimentation, we've noticed that Twitter direct messages (DMs) will be retained in Twitter's servers as long as one person in the chat does not delete them.

If you're on the Twitter website, click 'More' in the sidebar, then click 'Settings and Support.' On the mobile Twitter app, just tap 'Settings and Support' in the sidebar. To get started, log in to or open the Twitter app using the account for which you'd like to request an archive. To get a copy of your Twitter data, you first need to complete a request process. How to request your Twitter data on desktop or mobile Once you have the data, you'll get a local copy of all of your tweets that you can store indefinitely without needing to log in to Twitter. Twitter does this both for safety reasons and ostensibly to give its servers time to gather the detailed data it will send you.Īlso, you'll need an email address or mobile phone number registered to your Twitter account so the site can send you a special confirmation code to complete the process. Further Reading Elon Musk completes Twitter purchase, immediately fires CEO and other execsīefore we start, it's important to know that the process of getting a copy of your Twitter data can take 24 hours or more.

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