MediaWipeTool For x.com copies
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How it works

Why this tool hands you links instead of answers, and why the order you do things in matters more here than you would expect.

Why links, not answers

We never looked, so we cannot tell you

There is no live index of everything an X account ever posted. X closed the free public access that third-party mirrors ran on, and the mirrors that depended on it are gone.

So for each service that might hold a copy, this tool builds the address that answers the question and you click it. The answer arrives in your browser and never passes through our server. The cost is real: we cannot hide a service that holds nothing of yours, we cannot put the ones that matter to you first, and we cannot tell you afterward whether a request worked.

An empty result is a real result. If you check a service and it holds nothing of yours, you are finished with that one. Nothing on this site will know that, so keep your own note of which ones you have cleared.
The order

Delete at the source first, and delete the account last

This is the opposite of the advice for Reddit, and the difference is not a matter of taste.

  • Deleting the post on X does most of the work. The large research datasets hold only post identifiers, not the text, and a researcher turns one back into a post by fetching it from X. Delete the post and the identifier resolves to nothing, so every one of those datasets stops being able to reproduce it, with nothing for you to file.
  • Edit or overwrite before you delete, where you can. A plain delete leaves the original wording intact in anything that already copied it. Changing it first means a copy taken afterward carries the changed version.
  • Snapshot archives are the exception and need a request. A page someone saved to a web archive stays saved whether or not you delete the original. Those are the ones worth writing to.
  • Delete the whole account last, if at all. It is irreversible, it is not needed for any of the steps above, and doing it first takes away your ability to do them. On some services it also changes who a post appears to belong to rather than removing it.
Three steps

And there is no fourth

  1. Delete at the source. On X, in the order above.
  2. Check each holder yourself. One link per service, clicked by you.
  3. Send the requests. We write the text and give you the address. You read it, decide, and send it.
There is no verify step, and there is no case file. The Reddit side can check again after you file and show you what changed, because it counted what was there to begin with. This side never counted anything, so it has nothing honest to compare against.

Nothing here is a guarantee. This tool prepares requests. A person at each service decides whether to act, and may decline.