How to make your Twitter account private

Twitter is a worldwide connecting social media app. It is basically an app for sharing our views on someone’s posts in the form of pictures and videos. Social reformers, politicians, and Celebrities make their pages and what goes around the world is tracked and viewed as hashtags. Different persons share our views and make a union on a digital level.

Celebrities (Specialized people) make our account and users can follow each other on their likes and dislikes. Some users want to hide their identity while commenting on any one post. A private account is a mechanism by which the other users are not able to view the private account user information.

It can protect your tweets from the public and the few users are able to view and comment on them. It is the best platform for Group discussion for the team in the institution. Students can share their views with a specific group of users who all are members of the app.

To make your Twitter account private

On Smartphone

Follow the following steps on your device:-

  • Open the Twitter app on your smartphone
  • On the top left side, you will be able to view the gear button
  • Click on the gear button
  • Now, a Setting page will display on your screen 
  • Click on the Privacy and Settings option – it will provide protection to your app
  • Click on the Protect your Tweets option – it provides you the feature to make your account and tweets in a protected environment.
  • Pressing on the toggle button- enables the facility to protect yourself from the tweets you want to do on Twitter.
  • Click on the Done option

Now your Twitter account becomes private on your smartphone device. After converting your Twitter account from public to protected, then your all public tweets be protected, and no longer anyone able to view it.

On Desktop PC

  • Open your desktop screen
  • Click on the Twitter website from Google Chrome or any web browser you used on your device
  • Click on the Notification menu on your screen
  • Click on the Setting option at the top right side of the Twitter website
  • Click on the Privacy and Settings option – it will provide protection to your app
  • Click on the Protect your Tweets option- it provides you the feature to make your account and tweets in a protected environment.
  • Pressing on the toggle button- enables the facility to protect yourself from the tweets you want to do on Twitter.
  • Click on the Protect button on your screen.

Twitter’s public and private panel helps the user to be safe and protected using the social media platform. One of the disadvantages of this feature is that no one will be able to follow your account until you send the following request and then it will be accepted by the other user.

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