DELETED TWEETS STILL LINGER ONLINE, WHY?

So, the main question for every Twitter addict is, "Why do deleted tweets sometimes still show up on the web when you search?".

Well, the answer is that search engines constantly index pages on the web and can scoop up your Twitter posts as you make them. If you delete the tweet, though, it may still be cached and therefore available to show up in search results — until the site goes indexing again and updates itself with a fresh copy of your Twitter profile and posts.

It varies from page to page on how long it takes for the search engine to go out and index your page again so, if deleted tweets are still appearing in search results and making you feel uncomfortable, and what not, try contacting the search company and requesting that the material is manually removed. 

Twitter’s help guide provides its own instructions for making the same request to Google. To do so, find the Twitter post that is still turning up in Google search results and copy its URL before moving on to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals. Simply paste the URL and click the red Request Removal button on the page. Twitter warns that you may be asked to log into your Google Account (if you have one) or create a Google Account (if you do not have one) to complete the process.

If someone is searching for you online, your Twitter handle and a selection of recent public tweets often appear in the results. If you find this invasive, you can try dodging the indexing web crawler by changing your Twitter account from public to protected in your account settings, but future followers will have to ask for your permission to see your posts. Changing your profile name or Twitter username is another way to modify your identity for search engines.