Twitter sometimes gets a bad rap because of the negative experience many people have on the social media platform. However, there are ways to improve Twitter, through cleaning up your account, your feed and your followers.
This can be done by checking your settings to ensure you are using all the tools that Twitter offers, unfollowing or muting people you follow, and blocking people who follow you.
Given this, we will show you below how you can clean your Twitter account, feed and followers. That way, your experience with the app will certainly improve.
Why does your Twitter need a cleanup?
You might not think your Twitter needs a cleanup, but you’re wrong. In short, there are settings worth tweaking, accounts worth unfollowing, and people worth blocking.
However, you won’t know until you start exploring your options instead of just blindly scrolling through your feed every hour. When it comes to your fellow Twitter users, you have the option to block, mute or unfollow them, depending on whether you are following them or they are following you.
You can also adjust your settings to ensure you’re getting the Twitter experience you want. See how below.
How to clear your twitter account?
To clear your Twitter account, you need to:
- Open your Twitter, and tap on your profile icon;
- then go to Settings & Support > Settings & Privacy;
- In the menu that opens, you have access to many different options, such as downloading a file of your data and deactivating your account. However, for Twitter cleanup purposes, you can set the Twitter information Your accountsuch as your phone number and email address, changing your password, managing your account security, and changing your notifications settings.
You can also make sure your Twitter profile is how you want it. For that:
- Open your Twitter, and tap on your profile icon;
- Then tap Profile > Edit Profile;
- Then you can change your Name, Biography and Location, add a website and/or your date of birth. You can also add (or change) your profile picture and/or cover image. The goal is to make sure your profile represents you the way you want to be represented.
Once your settings and profile are how you want them, you should move on to cleaning up your Twitter feed.
How to clean up your twitter feed?
Cleaning up your Twitter feed means taking a good look at the accounts you’re following. The goal is to narrow down the number of accounts you follow to ensure your feed is relevant and compatible with your interests.
Action is necessary at times as you may have followed accounts on a whim and lost interest in their tweets over time. To see who you are following, perform the following step by step:
- Open your Twitter, and tap the your profile icon;
- Next, you’ll see two numbers: one next to Following and one next to Followers. Tap Followers;
- From there, you will see a list of accounts you follow presented in chronological order, from most recent to oldest;
- Scroll down the list, making sure you want to actively follow everyone you’re following. If you find someone you no longer want to follow, just click the follow to the right to Unfollow this account. You can also click on the profile in question to see more options related to that specific account. just find the three dots icon and click on it to open a contextual menu and mute the account;
- In terms of cleaning up your feed, the other useful option is turn off retweetswhich means you will only see the original tweets from that account.
How to clean your twitter followers?
To clean up your Twitter account, you should take a look at who you follow. While most people are happy with a lot of followers, you might be bothered by “pollution” on your follower list. The more followers you have, the harder this will be.
What you can do is protect your Tweets so that only people who follow you can see your posts and other account information. In addition, you will also be able to approve all new followers from the moment you block your account, to prevent people from following you. This is a useful option if you find yourself in the eye of a Twitter firestorm and want to prevent unfollowers from piling up.
To make your account private, do the following step by step:
- Open your Twitter, and tap on your profile icon;
- then go to Settings & Support > Settings & Privacy;
- Afterwards, tap Protect your Tweets.
The other, less extreme option is to block individual accounts that you don’t want to follow you. To do this, click on your profile or profile picture (depending on the platform you are using to access Twitter) and click on followers.
Now you will see a list of people who follow you. Scroll down until you find someone you don’t want to follow and click on their profile. Click in the three dots icon and you will see the option Block @[nome de usuário]. Once selected, that account will no longer be able to see your tweets.
