https://www.wired.com/story/tweets-ephemeral-likes-forever/

Like most things online, tweets can ostensibly be forever, but they probably shouldn’t. It’s a lesson many Twitter users have taken to in recent years, resulting in upwards of 5 million people enlisting independent services like Tweet­Delete and Tweet Archive Eraser in the hopes of ridding themselves of years of publicly accessible (usually bad) takes, comments, and posts.