Twitter is a very popular social media channel, not only do companies use it rather from celebrities, Marketers to Politicians, everyone uses Twitter nowadays.
According to The Washington Post, Twitter has 126 Million daily active users. By this figure, you can assume how popular this social media channel is.
I am pretty sure that you are also using Twitter, sharing posts with your followers and the world be it from breaking news, sharing festive wishes, quotes and others. It takes time in writing a creative tweet and sends it.
Some tweets also contain memories and moments that you lived. Those are really precious and you always want to keep them safe.
But imagine, your most precious tweets get deleted by you mistakenly. It’s very painful, right? Now, you want to recover deleted tweets.
Yes, you can also rewrite them but what if you don’t remember it anymore because it was a very old tweet, or it contains pictures that were important for you.
You can not rewrite them or get back those pictures back, so looking for some tutorials to get your deleted tweets restored.
So, you are on the right page where you are going to know how to recover deleted tweets to get your memories back.
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How To Recover Deleted Tweets?
Here I am going to explain it in steps to find deleted tweets or how to recover them:
Step: 1 Go to Twitter.com and log in to your account for which you want to recover deleted tweets.
Step: 2 Once you logged in, you can see it on the left side of the screen.
Step: 3 Once you clicked on More, it will show a menu where you need to click on Settings and Privacy.
Step: 4 On the next page, you can see Data and Permission settings. Click on that to Your Twitter Data option.
Step: 5 Once you click on Your Twitter Data, It will ask you to enter your password to verify you are the owner who he requesting Twitter data.
Step: 6 Now your Twitter data is ready to download, you can click on Download Archive.
Step: 7 When you clicked on the Download archive button, you can see the Twitter Data Archive. Just need to click on download data to get it.
That’s it! You have downloaded your Twitter data successfully into your computer.
Now you have the files that contain your Twitter data including your deleted tweets, photos and other important things.
But you might be thinking about how to see deleted tweets from the file? I’ll help you.
How To See Deleted Tweets From Twitter Data Archive?
The archive file you got from Twitter is in .zip format, so you need to extract it first. You can easily do it using tools like WinRAR.
This post will definitely help you to unzip your Twitter Data archive file: How to Extract Files From ZIP, RAR, 7z and Other Common Archives
I am using the WinRar, you can use any tool you feel comfortable using. You can extract the file by right-clicking on the .zip file then Extract here.
Once the archive file will be extracted successfully, you will get some files and folders from it.
Open the Index.html in your favourite browser.
Once you open it, you can see all the tweets that you have made on Twitter from day one. It contains your deleted tweets too.
Note: Don’t get confused by the different Twitter accounts in the above image, It is my other Twitter account. I have downloaded the archive for this account and shown my personal account in the tutorial. By mistake 😅😅😅
This is how you can see deleted tweets. You can easily filter your tweets according to Months and Years using the right side widget.
This is the easiest and working way which you can use to recover your deleted tweets which were very important for or may contain your sweet memories.
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How To Recover Deleted Tweets Photos?
The very interesting thing about Twitter is, they store the photos that you ever shared through tweets even after your tweets got deleted anyhow.
So, that means, you can still access them and download them to your computer.
Let me tell you how you can recover your deleted tweets’ photos and store them on your computer.
For recovering your pictures from a deleted tweet, you must have the Twitter image link for that particular image you want to download.
It looks like this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYW-JjFUEAA2A8i?format=jpg&name=small
Let me show you, how you can get a tweet’s image link.
Right-click on the image you want to get the image link of, and then select Copy image address.
Here is the link to the same image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYW-JjFUEAA2A8i?format=jpg&name=small
To give you a real example, I have deleted that particular tweet from my Twitter profile. Now let’s enter the same URL to see whether we are able to see that deleted tweet’s image or not.
Voila! We got that image from the deleted tweet. You can match the URL, it is the same.
Now you can download the same image on your computer by right-clicking on it and then Save image as…
So this is how you can recover deleted tweets’ images, this is the method that can help you to recover your sweets memories from Twitter even if you deleted them mistakenly.
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Alternative Methods To Recover Deleted Tweets
If the above’s method is not working for you then consider using the below listed alternative methods to restore deleted tweets from your Twitter profile.
Using Wayback Machine
You can call it — the internet time machine because it allows you to go back in time and visit the website to see how looks in past.
This tool can help you to recover your deleted tweets easily. To recover your deleted tweets using Wayback Machine, follow the below-mentioned steps:
Step 1: Go to archive.org/web or just simply click on this link. It will send you to the Wayback Machine tool where you can begin the process.
Step 2: Enter your Twitter profile URL and hit the Browse History button.
Step 3: Click on the date when you posted the tweet which is not deleted or any past the date.
Wayback Machine will show you all the tweets(including your deleted tweets) along with text and photos.
Using SnapBird
There is a tool called SnapBird.org that can help you to view deleted tweets for someone else’s account.
This is a very handy tool for this task and the best alternative to the native method of Twitter that I have listed above.
First, visit SnapBird.org and authenticate using your Twitter account by clicking Authenticate With Twitter button at the right upper corner.
You can see three fields, search, who? and for… You can see all tweets of any account just by entering the username of the account.
You have the following options in the Search dropdown option:
- Someone’s timeline: You can see anyone’s timeline and see all the tweets made from that twitter account.
- Someone’s likes: You can see all the tweets a person liked by entering his/her username in the who box.
- Your friend’s tweets: Use this option to see all your friends tweets by entering your username. For using this option, you need to upgrade your account.
- Tweets mentioning you: This is also a premium feature, you need to upgrade your account to see the tweets that ever mentioned you.
- Your direct messages: See all the DMs sent to you but again this is also a premium feature.
You can use this tool to see all the tweets made by any Twitter account just by entering its username.
After clicking on the search button, you will get both the tweets deleted or non-deleted both.
This is the easiest method you can use to see deleted tweets of any Twitter account.
Using Google Cache
Another easy method you can use is to view your deleted tweets. Here are the steps you need to follow to see all the tweets you’ve ever tweeted from your account.
First, search your Twitter account on Google. You can use this search query “your Twitter username + Twitter“.
You will see a down arrow as highlighted in the image above… Click on that and then Cached…
It will show your previous cached version of the page where you can see all deleted tweets. This method can be used for finding own and someone else’s deleted tweets.
Using Politwoops
Politwoops is a tool that stores all tweets made by political parties. If you want to see deleted tweets from a political party then this tool will work great.
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Conclusion – Recover Deleted Tweets In 2023
All the methods mentioned in this post will help you to restore deleted tweets from your Twitter profile.
If twitter’s native method isn’t working for you then you can try the alternative methods listed above.
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If having any queries then just leave them in the below comments box and I will help you to solve that.
This method doesn’t work now. ANy other idea? Thank you
What issue you are facing?
deleted tweets are not there.
After downloading the twitter data, extract the zip file and you will see a file named index.html inside the folder.
I don’t have index.html in the folder….
How to restore the deleted tweet if i got by using your method?
You cant restore them back to your Twitter account. Instead, you can open and read them in your PC.
Can you access these these on your phone
Yes, you can easily open it using any HTML viewer app or Chrome in your phone because it is a .html file.
Hello, it doesn’t work anymore. Do you think is there any way to recover the accidentally deleted tweets back?
What is the issue you are facing?
html file isnt there, rather all json files are present.
Twitter has changed this feature. Now they are providing JSON files instead of index.html. I will soon update this once I get any update.
Hey, I have a problem. I didn’t delete my pinned tweet but it’s suddenly not there. Why?
The content of the data folder is not the same anymore. There’s no index.html
hi, i accidentally deleted my pinned post. Can i still recover it? Your ways arent availablr anymore, is there any way to restore it? thank you
The README file says that it doesn’t contain the deleted tweets no more.
“tweet.js
This JSON file contains all the Tweets posted and not deleted. “
Hey Ravi.
I tested this today.
The JSON archive doesn’t included deleted tweets.
The readme file included with the download from twitter.com makes this clear.
Okay thanks for letting me know.
How to recover deleted message from now 2020
When I go to twitter account settings, there’s no content tab. I can’t find anywhere in my settings where I can request my archive.
Hello, Hannah!
First, you need to click on More then Settings and Privacy. In the Data and permissions, click on Your Twitter Data. It will ask you to enter the Password,. The last step is the Download Archive.
this is misleading because i want the deleted tweet to get back to my profile. i think there is no way to fix this currently, also there is no index.html files only javascript
Hello, Marco!
Twitter has changed this feature. Now they are providing JSON files instead of index.html. I will soon update this once I get any update.
Any sign of a new way to dig up our deleted tweets? I’m desperate to trace a few from a week ago. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Cheers!
I’ll keep checking and will update the same post if I gey anything new.
Hi Ravi,
Have you fxed with JSON files ? is there any update for us ? Could you please help us ?
I’m really sorry to tell you. Twitter stopped giving Index.html file along with the twitter data file. I will update this post as soon as if there is any update.
Hello, Twitter no longer gives the .html file and there are no files that have deleted Tweets after I download the archive. Is it impossible now to see deleted Tweets? And all the .JS files are broken but no deleted Tweets there either. I’m desperate.
Yes, Acatspit!
Twitter is no longer gives .html file.
is there a way you could help me undo deleted tweets? the tweetdelete.net deleted some of my tweets i didn’t intend to delete. I’m desperate. Is there any premium app for it? Thanks!
Thanks. This works. You should be ranked number one on google. All the options above are working.