Twitter Tip: Delete all Direct Messages

by Jacob on August 11, 2009 | 48 Comments

Increasing Twitter followers may be a good way to gain traffic to your blogs. However, do you find that there are too many direct messages in your Twitter inbox? Well, I got 600+ direct messages , what about you? You might want to delete them all at once. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t allow users to delete multiple/all messages for now. You can delete them one by one, but it’s completely insane!

No worry, there is a simple solution — DM Whacker. Just follow the 3 steps below:

DM Whacker Bookmarklet – Right click and bookmark this link.

Open your Direct Messages page in Twitter.

Click on the bookmarklet. On the sidebar, select whether to delete all DMs, or just DMs from a specific user (No @ in front of their name). You can choose to delete direct messages both or either in your inbox or sent folder.

Please note that deleting a DM from your sent folder, it will also delete it from the recipient’s inbox. The same applies for messages you have received.

A quick look:

P.S. Since this is a Beta tool, try it at your own risk.

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1 Blogger Rise August 11, 2009 at 6:30 pm

I open new account on twitter cause I was so dissapointed to many spammer on my last twitter acc but still the new one is just the same..oooo
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2 Jacob August 11, 2009 at 7:27 pm: Ya it’s sad. I’m now trying to delete those unwanted followers.

3 Aery August 11, 2009 at 10:22 pm

but Direct messages are the best way to cantact anybody. Reply tweets can be missed in the flow.
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4 Jacob August 11, 2009 at 10:33 pm: I didn’t say that Direct messaging have any problem. It just a tool to handle Twitter inbox with ease.

5 Tech-Freak Stuff August 11, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Cool Find! Never knew weather this was possible. Thanks for letting us know.
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6 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 12:52 am: Your welcome

7 Asswass August 12, 2009 at 12:46 am

I also have about 600 DMs Jacob. Why is it a good idea to delete all your DM’s?

Jacob get the subscribe to comments plugin .
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8 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 12:54 am: It’s depends on yourself. Because most of the Dms are autoresponder message by new followers.

9 Curious Little Person August 12, 2009 at 3:13 am

Thanks for the info Jacob! I’ts been a while since i logged into my twitter account.Nut id remember last that i did have 100+ DM and did not have the time to delete them. I have bookmarked this page for further use….

Excellent Information

Thanks a ton!

Cheers
Sandeep
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10 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 3:21 am: You’re welcome! Hope this little tool will be useful to you! =)

11 Benjamin Cip August 12, 2009 at 3:42 am

I want the tool that automatically unfollow the people who are not following me or stopped following me. I feel like there are so much scammer there… btw, you changed your logo! who did this to you?
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12 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 2:31 pm: Hey Ben, check out these tools – Tweepular and TwitterFollower. Yes, my friend made this logo for me

13 Benjamin Cip August 12, 2009 at 3:43 am

oh I forgot! Are you using AWeber? I can see that you are promoting it…
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14 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 2:31 pm: Nope, I just signed up as its aff account.

15 MonsterBuzz August 12, 2009 at 4:24 am

Sometimes the DMs are totally annoying. haha.
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16 Christie August 12, 2009 at 8:54 am

What a great thing! I think a lot of people get so overwhelmed by those auto DMs that they don’t bother to read their real DMs anymore! How nice to be able to clean it up. THanks!
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17 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 2:26 pm: Haha you’re right, there are too much auto Dms.

18 Evan August 12, 2009 at 9:10 am

Awesome tip. It stinks that a tool like this isn’t built in to Twitter, but thanks for pointing it out! I had no idea this was out there.
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19 Hesham August 12, 2009 at 10:07 am

Wow, there is new tools out there all the time, but since it’s beta I will wait for more time, I don’t want to mess around with my Twitter!
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20 shraqs August 12, 2009 at 11:27 am

OMG. Thanks for this tools. Really need it
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21 Doug Dillard August 12, 2009 at 11:54 am

I wish I had 600 DM in my account. I think we only have 6 in our account, so they are easily to manually delete at this time

I will definitely keep this in mind for when our Twitter account starts to go through the roof!
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22 Bombchell - in ATL August 12, 2009 at 3:27 pm

for some reason didnt work
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23 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 3:33 pm: Hi, any error? Did you follow the steps correctly?

24 Bombchell - in ATL August 12, 2009 at 3:31 pm

yay it worked, I had to get the updated version! thanks.

now i wish something to delete al status updates will magically come up lol
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25 Jacob August 12, 2009 at 3:39 pm: Glad that it worked for you now. Haha I think there’s currently no that kind of tool

26 Promotional Pens August 12, 2009 at 8:59 pm

Got try that twitter like blogs is turning into a spam farm and this will be a great help
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27 Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach August 12, 2009 at 9:11 pm

Excellent find! Shared with my network, thanks!
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28 Jacob August 13, 2009 at 12:39 am: Thanks for sharing this tip with your network!

29 Ben - Pig Jockey August 13, 2009 at 3:48 am

Ahh, I needed something like this. Thanks a lot Jacob!

30 Jacob August 13, 2009 at 10:54 am: Your welcome, Ben =)

31 Ricky August 13, 2009 at 5:55 pm

Thanx for sharing it Jacob, I was unaware of it
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32 BlogrPro August 13, 2009 at 9:39 pm

In one of my Twitter profile, there are more than 350 Direct msgs and I am lazy to delete some msgs from them. Thanks for sharing this. It will help me to make me more laziest. Ha ha
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33 Surender Sharma August 14, 2009 at 3:15 am

Thanks Jacob,
I was really irritate with the flood of PM on Twitter.
I will delete all PM at once.
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34 Sire August 20, 2009 at 4:45 pm

I never log onto my profile as I use TweetDeck to manage my incoming tweets. It’s a real time saver.
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35 Jacob August 20, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Hi Sire, this is to delete the DMs. Does TweetDeck able to manage or delete all DMs?

36 Sire August 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm

Yep, sure does.
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37 Jacob August 20, 2009 at 7:06 pm

I tried to clear all DMs in TweetDeck, but once I log in on the web and the DMs are still there.

38 Sire August 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm

Sorry, it doesn’t delete it from the Web, only from TweetDeck itself.
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39 Jacob August 20, 2009 at 9:56 pm: Ooh, too bad. Because sometimes I access Twitter from web or phone. Thanks anyway, Sire.

40 sham August 20, 2009 at 6:04 pm

This is a nice piece of info ..Will be useful for me in future..
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41 Chris Peterson August 21, 2009 at 8:34 pm

good work! I am dealing with it for long time.

42 Extreme John August 30, 2009 at 1:51 am

I have something like 1800 in there now, this tool is going to come in handy in about 5 minutes.
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43 Jacob September 1, 2009 at 7:59 am: Wow, 1800! Haha no worry, now you can delete all them in 1 click.

44 Ajinkya September 8, 2009 at 7:29 pm

tatsz a cool tool , well i use huitter.com for such kinda tools for twitter
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45 Jacob September 9, 2009 at 10:22 am: Yea, its pretty cool. And thanks for the recommend of huitter.com.

46 Garry@moistdesigns September 19, 2009 at 6:23 pm

I am concerned about the numerous Twitter messages and tried deleting them previously but the time and effort it takes made me uninterested and there they are ! still sitting pretty in my account.
Now I know what I have to do with these.Thanks for the info dude.

47 S.Pradeep Kumar October 24, 2009 at 10:18 pm

I agree with this tip !

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