{"id":45804,"date":"2022-07-30T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/?p=45804"},"modified":"2022-07-30T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T20:01:09","slug":"how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Make Your Twitter Account Private?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_43 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a144999e9a7b\" class=\"cssicon\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;direction:ltr;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a144999e9a7b\"  class=\"cssiconcheckbox\">1<\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a144999e9a7b\" ><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private\/#How_Do_You_Make_Your_Twitter_Account_Private\" title=\"How Do You Make Your Twitter Account Private?\">How Do You Make Your Twitter Account Private?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private\/#Making_your_twitter_account_private\" title=\"Making your twitter account private\">Making your twitter account private<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private\/#Viewing_protected_tweets_from_a_private_account\" title=\"Viewing protected tweets from a private account\">Viewing protected tweets from a private account<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private\/#Retweeting_protected_tweets_from_a_private_account\" title=\"Retweeting protected tweets from a private account\">Retweeting protected tweets from a private account<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private\/#Managing_follower_requests_from_a_private_account\" title=\"Managing follower requests from a private account\">Managing follower requests from a private account<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/zeru.com\/blog\/how-do-you-make-your-twitter-account-private\/#Unprotecting_your_twitter_account\" title=\"Unprotecting your twitter account\">Unprotecting your twitter account<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Do_You_Make_Your_Twitter_Account_Private\"><\/span>How Do You Make Your Twitter Account Private?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/F9RhWw8.jpg\" style=\"max-height:386px; height:auto; margin:0px 10px; max-width:29% width:auto;\" alt=\"how do you make your twitter account private\"> <\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering, &#8220;How do you make your Twitter account private?&#8221; you&#8217;ve come to the right place. Here you will learn how to view, retweet, and manage follower requests from a private account. Follow the steps below and you&#8217;ll have your account private in no time! This article will also help you to manage your follower requests and view protected tweets. To learn more, read on!<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Making_your_twitter_account_private\"><\/span>Making your twitter account private<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To make your Twitter account private, follow the steps below. To make your tweets private, go to the settings page for your account and tap &#8220;Privacy.&#8221; You&#8217;ll see your profile photo and an option to Protect Your Tweets. Make sure to turn this feature on if you don&#8217;t want others to see your tweets. Once you&#8217;ve finished making your tweets private, you can deactivate your account if you need to.<\/p>\n<p>To make your Twitter account private, you can accept or decline follower requests. This prevents new accounts from seeing your tweets. Your followers can still see and interact with your tweets, though. When you make your account private, you prevent other users from reading your tweets &#8211; but only to your followers. This way, your tweets will remain private from third-party applications. Additionally, you can prevent followers from screenshotting and sharing your tweets.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Viewing_protected_tweets_from_a_private_account\"><\/span>Viewing protected tweets from a private account<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You can&#8217;t view a private Twitter account if you don&#8217;t know the username of the person who is tweeting it. However, there is a way to view protected tweets without following the account. You can do this by sending a Direct Message to the person and requesting to view their tweets. Another option is to use a Twitter profile viewer. All you need to do is enter the username of the person whose Twitter account you want to view, and the program will display the protected tweets.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not sure of the person who posted a protected tweet, you can try following them on other social networks, such as Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. The content they share on all these sites is likely to be similar, so it&#8217;s possible to view the protected tweets they&#8217;ve posted. You can also try following the person if they accept your request to follow them. You&#8217;ll probably have to pay a small fee for the service, but it&#8217;s worth it for the chance to read what others have posted.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Retweeting_protected_tweets_from_a_private_account\"><\/span>Retweeting protected tweets from a private account<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When someone retweets a post from another user&#8217;s account, they are not able to retweet the original. This is because protected tweets are not visible to others. A private account is identified by a lock icon next to the tweet. However, this doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t copy and paste the tweet yourself. Here&#8217;s how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your device, you may want to unprotect protected tweets. This means that you won&#8217;t be able to see the tweets in search results. If you want to make a tweet public again, you&#8217;ll have to unprotect it. If you&#8217;re unable to unprotect tweets, they&#8217;ll be visible to any other users. Just be sure to follow the Twitter terms and conditions to avoid problems.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Managing_follower_requests_from_a_private_account\"><\/span>Managing follower requests from a private account<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Managing follower requests from a private Twitter account allows you to control who can follow you and who can&#8217;t. By default, people who follow you are only permitted to view your public Tweets and reply to your posts. However, there are a few ways to manage the follower requests that you receive on a private account. These include: a. Protecting your Tweets \u2014 ensuring that they&#8217;re only available to people you want to follow \u2014 and b. removing follower requests after they&#8217;re made.<\/p>\n<p>Managing follower requests from a private Twitter account is similar to managing follower requests on a public account. While public accounts automatically receive notifications when a new follower wants to follow you, private accounts allow you to view follower requests manually. To do this, simply click on your profile icon. Follower requests are listed on your main timeline, but they aren&#8217;t automatically accepted. If you want to view the followers who already follow you, click on the follower&#8217;s profile to see their information.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Unprotecting_your_twitter_account\"><\/span>Unprotecting your twitter account<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The reason for unprotecting your Twitter account may differ from one user to another. If you are concerned that your tweets could be read by people you don&#8217;t know, protecting your posts is not the way to go. While you can continue to see your tweets in your followers&#8217; timeline, this won&#8217;t prevent strangers from seeing them. Unprotecting your tweets will only prevent people from seeing them if you decide to make them private again.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to protect your tweets so that only people you approve can view them, you must allow those people to follow you. You can accept or deny them. After unprotecting your tweets, you will have to manually approve new followers. 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