How do I make my Twitter account private?

Hi! Making your Twitter account private is actually really simple once you know where to look. Open the Twitter app (or website), go to Settings & Privacy → Privacy and Safety → Audience and tagging. There, you’ll see an option called “Protect your Tweets.” Toggle that on, and your account instantly becomes private. What this does: only your current followers can see your tweets. Anyone new will have to send you a follow request that you approve manually. Good news—your old tweets automatically become private too, so you don’t need to go back and change anything one by one. Existing followers stay unless you remove them. The only trade-off is that your tweets won’t appear in public searches or be shareable outside your approved circle. If you’re looking to control your audience and stop random people from scrolling through your timeline, flipping that one setting will do the job.

I switched mine to private a while back. It takes literally 10 seconds. In the app, head into settings and toggle “Protect your Tweets.” After that, strangers can’t see your tweets, and anyone new has to request to follow you. All your old tweets automatically get locked too, so you don’t have to delete or redo them. It’s basically like making Twitter into a smaller, invite-only club. Honestly, best thing I did when I got tired of randoms lurking.

To make your Twitter account private, enable “Protect your Tweets” under Privacy settings. Once you do, all past and future tweets are hidden from non-followers. New followers must request approval. Current followers remain unless you manually remove them.

Click Settings → Privacy and Safety → Audience and tagging, then check “Protect your Tweets.” From then on, you approve followers manually, tweets are private, and strangers can’t search or see your content. Existing followers remain unaffected.