How I bulk deleted all my Facebook and X posts (and why)
I created my Facebook and X accounts when I was young and stupid. I needed a fresh start, but I wasn’t expecting the solution to take so much of my time.
Two and a half years ago, I promised myself that I’d be chasing my dream of becoming a sci-fi novelist, whatever the cost. I closed my company, ditched my clients, and started writing. Now, I’m almost there, at that sweet point of doing the last adjustments, and one of the few things left to do is rebuilding my social media presence. This time, more like a proper author.
As a person born and raised in Greece, all my social media profiles were filled with posts, podcasts, and links to Greek websites, which makes sense. But since I started writing in English and chasing the worldwide audience, it made even more sense to start fresh. After all, I had many stupid posts and many really, really bad jokes that I published when I was a teenager.
Yikes.
On the other hand, why would anyone who doesn’t read/speak Greek follow me when I’m posting only in my language? It doesn’t make any sense, especially in my case and while I’m trying to slowly and steadily build an audience.
But it’s 2026, right? I’m asking because, in this day and age, where anyone can vibe-code basically anything, simple features like deleting some of the things that you don’t like, or everything, aren’t even available. You’d think that laws like GDPR would make a difference, but who are we kidding?
What I thought would have been a few-second process ended up being hours of searching and testing crappy and money-grabbing websites, browser extensions, and tools that promised to delete all my posts at once.
Some of them worked, but they were so slow at deleting my data that it would take days to complete the process. Others, on the other hand, never worked at all, and some were even dangerous to use, as their usage could lead to getting banned from Facebook or X.
Why social media platforms hate when you delete everything
Facebook claims that it has a tool that allows its users to bulk delete all their Facebook posts from one page. And they’re right, because they do provide such a tool, just with a little small detail they forgot to mention: it doesn’t really work. The platform’s tool only displayed a handful of my posts, and not even half of what I had published.
X (previously Twitter, before Elon thought naming it ‘X’ was a cool idea), on the other hand, is not like Meta. They don’t even give you such an option. You want all your tweets gone? Well, delete your freaking profile or start deleting them manually one by one, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll be done until your kids head over to college.
There are many reasons why social media platforms hate when a user deletes all of their data. First, your data is their product, their leverage, and their engagement engine. Giving you an option to bulk-delete everything would undermine all three of them. Secondly, they need your data now more than ever, because everyone has an AI model to train nowadays.
Thirdly, more money. X, for example, is currently pricing its cheapest plan for accessing and using its APIs at $200 per month. The free tier they offer is so limited that it doesn’t even give you that option — you know, in case you wanted to waste more of your time like me and build your own tool?
That’s a lot of money to their annual revenue, so you can understand why they would prefer seeing their users pay a third-party website or tool to bulk delete all their data, instead of doing it for free within their own platform. More API usage means more money in their pockets.
Or, at least, that’s my humble guessing, and I may be completely wrong about this.
Why deleting your account is not always the answer
One of the most common things that I saw professional authors say to beginners is to own your first and last name everywhere you can, including on social media platforms and by getting a domain name.
So I did exactly that, got myself the panossakalakis.com and made sure I owned the ‘@panossakalakis’ or ‘@sakalakis’ on any social media platform that I could. And now am I supposed to just lose that name and use an alternative one? Nah, I’ll pass.
But manually deleting each post? Nah, that’s another pass. But I wasn’t just going to give up that easily and pay for a tool to do the job.
How to bulk delete your Facebook posts
Not the best, fastest, or ideal way of bulk deleting your posts, but it worked pretty well for me. The problem here is the number of posts you have published, as you can only select a handful of them each time.
You just need a desktop PC or a laptop, and you’re good to go.
1. Visit your Facebook profile from any desktop browser.
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2. Right-click and select “Inspect”.
3. Click on the little icon in the right corner of the new window that opened to switch to Facebook’s mobile version.
4. Refresh the page (important).
5. Click on the 3 dots in the top right corner -> Activity Log -> Manage your posts.
6. From there, click on the “Select all” option and then “Trash” or “Archive” depending on what you want to do with them.
It’s a 2-click process, but again, depending on the number of posts you have, it may take you a bit of time until you delete them all. It took me around 1 hour and 20 minutes to delete all of my posts.
I’ve also made a video on YouTube if you want to watch it:
If you watch it, be kind, I KNOW I’ve made mistakes, but who cares, first try.
How to bulk delete your posts on X
For X, most of the apps and websites are behind paid subscriptions, and most of them (I’ve tried a few) are so slow that it may take up to two days until they complete the whole process. Crazy.
The only way I found out that’s actually free and works really well is a native app that you have to download and install on Windows, macOS, or Linux. It does have a few paid plans, but the bulk delete feature is available for free.
Say hello to Cyd.social, an app that will download and backup all of your tweets and likes, and then proceed to delete them within seconds. That thing deleted 2,253 tweets and 5,954 likes from my profile so fast, for a second there, I thought it didn’t even work. I had to check my X profile to make sure, and I was amazed at how quickly it cleaned it up.
Just download the app, sign in with your X account, click on the “Delete from X” option, backup your files, and click that delete button to complete the process.
Don’t even dare to use an AI agent!
Learn from my mistakes.
Well, here’s a funny journey I had with AI browsers that didn’t last for long.
First, I gave a try to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser. After visiting my friend’s profile page and trying to delete their own posts, an option that obviously doesn’t exist, it told me that it couldn’t find the option.
Once I guided it a bit, it was finally able to start deleting my posts. It was so slow, it was unbearable, so I just asked it to make the process quicker, but it never did. I had the exact same experience with Dia and Comet; they were painfully slow.
The worst was, by far, Perplexity’s Comet, which didn’t understand most of the tasks I was telling it to do (but it was good at others).
BUT… That’s when Atlas, for some reason, started unfriending some of my friends. Thankfully, I stopped it on the second unfriend, but I let it proceed to see if it was actually going to remove all my friends. It did exactly that. Not that I let it, but it somehow understood that I wanted to clean everything from my profile rather than just my posts.
So… yeah, let them improve a bit more, huh?
Well, that’s it for today, folks. If you wanted to find a way to bulk delete your posts on Facebook or X, thankfully, this guide helped you achieve that.
Let me know in the comments if you know a faster way, or if you have any questions or problems.
