How to delete a retweet on Twitter

Retweets are a wonderful and easy way to share other people's thoughts with the world.. And Twitter, retweets are complete items from a user's feed. But, What if you suddenly need to get rid of one or more of these types of positions? The popular microblogging service is designed for this.

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How to delete retweets

The opportunity to delete unnecessary retweets is offered in all versions of Twitter: desk, mobile, as well as in all the applications of the social network. At the same time, the microblogging service also allows you to hide other people's retweets. Next we are going to talk about how to delete retweets on Twitter on any platform.

In the browser version of Twitter.

The desktop version of Twitter is still the “incarnation” most popular of this social network. So let's start our guide on how to delete retweets with it..

1. Go to your profile on the site.

   Click on our avatar icon in the upper right corner of the page and select the first item from the drop down list. “Show profile”..

2. Now look for the retweet that we want to delete.

   These are the publications that carry the label “You have retweeted”..

3. To delete the respective retweet from your profile, just click on the icon with two green arrows outlining a circle at the bottom of the tweet.

   Thereafter, the retweet in question will be removed from the news feed, yours and your followers. But the message will not disappear from the profile of the user who posted the tweet.

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In the Twitter mobile app

How can we understand, deleting a retweet is the simplest action. The Twitter client for mobile devices also offers us almost nothing new in this regard.

1. When launching the application, we click on our profile icon in the upper left corner and go to the side menu.
2. Here we select the first element … “Profile”..
3. Now, as in the desktop version of Twitter, we just have to find the retweet we want in the feed and click on the green icon with two arrows.

   As a consequence of these actions, the retweet in question will be removed from our post list.

As you may have already noticed, the procedure of removing retweets on both PC and mobile devices is ultimately reduced to a single action: click again on the icon of the respective function.

Hide retweets from other users

Deleting retweets from your own profile is easy. The procedure to hide the retweets of certain users is equally simple. This measure can be used when the microblog that is read is frequently shared with followers by people outside the company.

1. A) Yes, to disable retweets of a specific user in our feed, you must first go to that person's profile.
2. Then, you should find the three vertical dots icon next to the button “Read read”. and click on it.

   Now you just have to choose from the drop-down menu “Desactivar retweets”..

Thus, we hide the display of all retweets of the selected user in our Twitter feed.

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