Deactivate Twitter Account | How to Deactivate Your Twitter Account

Do you want to deactivate your Twitter account? You’re on the right site here. We’ll be teaching you in this article how easy it can be to deactivate your Twitter account without seeking for someone’s attention to do so. If you still want to delete the account also, we still got it covered for you here. All you need is to read through below to see how you can be able to deactivate your twitter account.

Twitter is a social media site that is quite secure and scam-free with high level of security. Twitter enables you to be able to share your thoughts, links and views. There are many things which you can be able to use twitter for. Again, Twitter does not control other third-party websites like Google or Bing. So to say, any content gotten from your Twitter profile may remain available on the internet even when you deactivate your account.

Steps to Deactivate Your Twitter Account

Before you deactivate your Twitter account, it’s important for you to know what comes in place. When an account is been deactivated, your Twitter account which includes your username, public profile, and display name will no longer be viewed.

And it’s still possible for you to restore your Twitter account only for the period of 30 days after deletion.

1. For you to deactivate your account, you need go to the top menu where you’ll see a navigation menu icon (3-dotted lines), or your profile icon. That depends on the one you have on your page.
2. Click on “Settings and Privacy.”
3. Click on “Account.”
4. Then click “Deactivate your Account” located at the bottom of the page.
5. Read the account deactivation information, and click on “Deactivate.”
6. After that, you’ll then have to enter your Password and click on “Deactivate” again.
7. Confirm that you want to proceed with the deletion and click “Yes, Deactivate.”

Now you’ve seen how easy it is to delete your account on Twitter!

We’ll now be taking you through the steps one after the other, depending on the device you’re using.

Delete on Desktop Computer

• The first thing you need to do is to sign into your account.
• Click on “More” and locate the Settings and Privacy section.
• Go to the Account section of the menu and click on “Deactivate your Account.”
• After that, click on “Deactivate.”
• You’ll then have to enter your password when prompted.
• Finally, click on “Deactivate Account.”

Delete Twitter on Android

• Depending on the version of twitter app you’re using, you’ll have to either click on the Profile icon or the 3-dotted lines Menu option.
• Go to the Settings and Privacy menu and click on “Account.”
• Tap the “Deactivate your Account” option.
• Then click on “Deactivate.”
• After that, enter your Password when prompted and click “Deactivate.”
• Then click “Yes, Deactivate.”

Delete Twitter on iOS

• The first step you need to take is to click on your Profile icon located at the top of the screen.
• Select Settings and Privacy.
• Then click on “Account.”
• After that, tap on “Deactivate Your Account.”
• Tap “Deactivate” and enter your Password when prompted.
• Tap “Deactivate” again and click on “Yes, Deactivate.”

Now that’s how easy it is!

Once you’ve deactivated your account, you just have the grace of 30 days if you want to re-activate your account. After that period of 30 days and you’ve not made any effort to re-activate it again, the account will be permanently deleted.

But if you want it to go by, you also have the opportunity to create a new twitter account only with a different email and mobile number all together. So therefore, if you feel like you need a brown-new twitter account, we also have it packaged for you here in this article.

Create New Twitter Account

Without much emphasis, I’m just going to show you the step-by-step process that will help you to create this account easily.

• At first you need to go to your browser and type Twitter.com.
• Once it has opened, just click on the Sign up option.
• The next thing for you is to fill in your information as directed.
• Then enter the name you want to use for your twitter account, phone number or email. If the account is for your bog or business, then it’s advisable for you to use your company’s name for it.
• Once you’re done filling out your information and other details, twitter team will send a code to either your email or phone number depending on the one you used for your sign up. The need for this is just to verify your email or phone number.
• Finally, you need to create a strong password you want to use. Make sure you create the one you can remember or rather right it down in a safe place.
• Once you verified your account, you will be taken to twitter home page, and you will be logged into your Twitter account.

Now your account is all but set! Once you’ve completed the account setup, all you need is to add information to personalize it and make it more colorful. You can simply do this by clicking on the Settings button.

Note: Youcan also synchronize your twitter account with your other email accounts or your accounts in other social networks. For instance if you have other email accounts, you can easily link your new twitter account to those email accounts like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, and others.

Bonus Tip – How to Block Emails on your iOS Device

iOS 12 and below versions:

1. The first thing is to open the mails you think are spam.
2. Swipe it to the left where you’ll see three options (More, Flag, Trash).
3. Click on the “More” option.
4. You’ll see various options; you have to choose the last option marked “Move Message.”
5. Having done so, you will see a new pane showing different folders which you can move the messages.
6. Then click on the “Junk Folder” and the emails will be moved to Junk.
7. But if you’ve already opened the mail, you can just move it to the Junk folder by clicking on the small ‘Folder’ icon located at the top right hand then select the ‘Junk’ folder which is on the subsequent screen.

iOS13 and above or iPadOS:

1. At first, you need to verify that the email address you want to block is in your Contacts app. If the address isn’t in your Contacts app, add it either to an existing contact or create a new contact card.
2. Once the email address is in Contacts, open your Settings app.
3. After that, click on “Mail.”
4. Under the Threading options, click on “Blocked Sender Options.”
5. Choose what you want to do with any mail from a blocked sender. Choices include None, Mark as Blocked Leave in Inbox or Move to Trash
6. After you toggle that setting on, tap “Blocked” and choose “Add New.”
7. Then click on the contact you want to block.

You can use your Mail App to Block Email:

• At first, you need to open an email from a sender you want to block.
• Click on the name of the sender.
• Then tap the name listed next to ‘From’ in the header.
• Select ‘Block This Contact.’ 
• Confirm you want to block the contact
• After that, the contact will be added to your Blocked list

Note: Blocking unknown callers is also a lot easier in iOS 13. All you just need is to OpenSettings > go to Phone and then toggle on Silence Unknown Callers.

Bonus Tip 2 – How to Logout of Email on your iPhone

We’ll be providing you with the step-by-step procedure. See below:

• The first step to take is to go to the Settings app.
• Then scroll down and select “Accounts & Password.”
• You’ll see lots of email accounts you signed up for, such as; iCloud, Apple email, Gmail, Business email, etc. Just select the one you want to log out.
• Then click on the arrow button located right of the Email account so to move the slide to turn it Off.
• Finally, tap on the “Done” button to complete the action.

Log Out of iCloud

• The first thing you need to do is to go to the Settings app.
• Then click on your iCloud ID or Username.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and select “Sign Out.”
• Once you’ve done that, all iCloud services like Mail, iTunes, Apple Pay, iCloud Photo, etc, will be signed off from your iPhone device.

Log out of Gmail iPhone App

If you have an email coming to your iPhone through the Gmail app and not through Mail, then you need to log out directly on the app and not in iPhone’s settings.

• The first thing to do is to tap on the Gmail icon to open he Gmail app.
• You’ll then have to sign in to your account.
• After that, tap on your name and image located at the top of the screen.
• Then select “Manage Accounts.”
• Another page will open which consists of all your Gmail accounts.
• Slide to the ‘Off’ position next to any Gmail account you want to sign out from on your iPhone device.

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