Delete all Direct Messages in your Twitter Account
If you find your Twitter direct messages inbox clogged up with too many messages, you might feel like deleting them all at once. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t provide a way to delete multiple/all direct messages at once. You can delete them individually, but that’s going to take a hell lot of your time if you have too many direct messages in your account.
That’s when the DM Whacker bookmarklet comes handy. Just drag the bookmarklet on this page to your bookmarks bar. Go to the direct messages page after logging into your Twitter account and click on the DM Whacker bookmarklet.
You can use the options that appear on the sidebar there to delete DMs from a particular user only, or all DMs. You can delete direct messages from both or either of your Inbox/Sent folders. Deleting a DM from your sent folder will also delete the same from the recipient’s Inbox folder. DM Whacker does take up a few moments to delete all your direct messages – so wait patiently till as the page reloads several times. When all’s done, you’ll get a confirmation window from DM Whacker, akin to this:
Please note that this little tool is ‘beta’ – so try it at your own risk. It could throw up some problems as mentioned in the creator’s page.
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Nice tool, but is there a situation where we need to delete all DMs from Twitter?
Nirmal
31 Dec 08 at 10:10 am
@Nirmal: Some people like me hate clutter so keep only very little stuff in our email inboxes and other such things. If you’re like me, you’ll find it useful
Shankar Ganesh
31 Dec 08 at 10:17 am
bleh i hardly get any DM but this trick can come handy. Thanks Shankar Ganesh for sharing.
Blogsdna
31 Dec 08 at 10:24 am
Nice tool Shankar ! I don’t have much DMs in my twitter let me try after when there is more message !
Karthikeyan
31 Dec 08 at 10:25 am
@BlogsDNA: Thanks for dropping by to comment. I’m subscribed to your blog for quite a while. Great posts
@Karthikeyan: You should surely bookmark it and try it. It’s kind of indispensable if you ask me
Shankar Ganesh
31 Dec 08 at 10:54 am
Hi Shankar,
Thanks for the great post on this! Glad to see that the bookmarklet has come in handy for you!
Damon
Damon
31 Dec 08 at 10:57 am
@Damon: Well, thank you for making such a convenient bookmarklet!
Shankar Ganesh
31 Dec 08 at 10:59 am
For some reason my DM’s were exposed on the public time line this morning. I was pleased to find this utility but then disappointed when found it to be broken by recent actions on Twitter’s side.
sgtret
14 Feb 09 at 11:51 pm
Nice job, it worked! Thanks
keith
28 Feb 09 at 1:39 am
Great tool. I had piled up nearly 1,000 direct messages. Twitter doesn’t have any searching tools for DMs so there’s no point in keeping them around. Being able to clear them out was very satisfying.
Dave Saunders
29 Mar 09 at 10:14 pm
I cannot get this dm remover to work, i tused to work on my twitter page but not anymore. Anybody have any ideas as to why it’s not working?
Jason
16 Apr 09 at 7:26 pm
It is so painful to remove all these updates, thank you for the post will try your tool.
Arni
19 Jun 09 at 10:08 pm