This is a question that I have been asked before by loads of my friends and I thought I would write a short post on my tips for your mass of DMs or Direct Messages that you may have building up on your Twitter profile.

First of all your DMs shouldn’t really give you any cause for concern, even though they may be a bit of a pain to have loads, they are generally not a problem, but, if you do want to get rid of them, there is sadly no option on Twitter to delete multiple DMs, so how do you do it?

Some time ago you used to be able to use a program called DM Whacker, but sadly this no longer works on twitter, so my advice would be to use SocialOomph (formally TweetLater), besides been able to do stacks of other things, you can also “purge” your list of DMs from Twitter.

Remove Twitter Direct Messages with SocialOomph

You have a choice of all DMs, older than 7 days and older than 30 days, so you can keep some that you may deem important. Yes it’s that simple.

But remember once your DMs are deleted, that’s it, you will not be able to get them back, they are gone for over, so be careful you don’t delete messages that you want to keep ;)


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15 Responses to “How To Remove Loads of Direct Messages on Twitter!”
  1. How to remove your Twitter Direct Messages…

    This is a question that I have been asked before by loads of my friends and I thought I would write a short post on my tips for your mass of DMs or Direct Messages that you may have building up on your Twitter profile.

    Read on and I will explain one q…

  2. Sarah says:

    I never thought of deleting DMs at all. Since it isn’t a problem for me, I just leave them intact. However, I have like 60 DMs. Haha, maybe it is time to clean up.

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    Karen
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    You’d be surprised how quick DMs start building up as you get more popular!

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  3. Een Rockstar says:

    Yeah, twitter don’t have an ability to delete multiple DMs. I never delete my DMs. I don’t count also how much my DMs..hehe.Anyway thanks for sharing
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    Karen
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    Well this is a handy way of removing them if you need to ;)

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  4. bloguero 123 says:

    Great tutorial man, I’ve a bunch of useless DM, is it possible to block them altogether, most I receive are spam.
    bloguero 123 is hoping you stop by and read ¿En verdad funcionan las encuestas pagadas? My ComLuv Profile

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  5. Alison Moore Smith from Easy Blog Setup
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    I just googled “remove direct messages from twitter” and you came up #2! Hah!

    Thanks for the tip. Those billions of DMs are driving me nuts!
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    Karen
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    Wow, that is awesome, I must be doing something right with my SEO ;) Glad to be of help, it’s about time Twitter had an option to remove all the DMs in one go..

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  6. jan geronimo
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    Here’s taking note of that, but for the meantime I unfollow users who litter my DM inbox with their wares especially those repeat offenders. If I just delete their spammy messages that takes take time and these things add up. I’d rather have them gone from my life. :)
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  7. How To Remove Loads of Direct Messages on Twitter!…

    This is a question that I have been asked before by loads of my friends and I thought I would write a short post on my tips for your mass of DMs or Direct Messages that you may have building up on your Twitter profile….

  8. ashok says:

    Don’t use twitter anymore, but was happy to stumble this – when I did use it, the huge numbers of DM’s I was getting was a pain, and I did want to delete a lot of them.

    Hope this post is of use to many more!
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  9. Melinda
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    That never occurred to me since I rarely look at DMs. Thanks for the tip.
    Melinda is hoping you stop by and read How irrational shopping decisions cause clutterMy ComLuv Profile

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  10. I am insanely organized with my inboxes (we have so many don’t we?) and so I generally answer immediately or asap and then delete. My email is the same way. I think I have OCD when it comes to this topic lol.

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  11. john
    Twitter:
    says:

    This is a very useful tool. To not be able to remove more DM’s at once is a real pain. At least is free for using it with Twitter :D

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  12. Laura
    Twitter:
    says:

    Thank you so much for sharing this, took me a while to find a solution to mass deleting of Twitter Direct Messages. Such a painful and time consuming task to do it manually. I’m using the solution you provided and the DM’s are being deleted as I type this.

    There’s so many people out there that aren’t even aware of such a thing, so I will definiately be spreading the word about this! Twitter, here we go!

    Thanks again!

    Laura.

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