How Can I Make Likes on Twitter Private?

The short answer to this question is “you can’t“. There’s no way to make your likes private or hide them from your followers.

Sure, you can set your account so that non-followers can’t see your likes. And you can approve or deny follower requests if you don’t want them to see your likes.

If you don’t want ANYONE to see your likes, then you must:

Make your account private through the “Protect Your Tweets” option
Never accept any follower request (aka never having any followers)

If that’s what you want to do, then I’ll gladly walk you through the steps necessary to do all this. It’s not exactly quantum science.

Follow my guide below 😀

1. Select “More” on the left-hand side

Twitter on desktop showing the "More" option highlighted on the left-hand side and a red arrow pointing to it — Twitter on the desktop shows the “*More*” option highlighted on the left-hand side and a red arrow pointing to it

Begin by opening Twitter on your computer (www.twitter.com is the official website), login (if necessary), and then find the “More” option on the left-hand side menu.

See the image above to see what I’m talking about!

2. Select “Settings and Support“

Twitter menu showing the "Settings and Support" option highlighted and a red arrow pointing to it — Twitter menu showing the “*Settings and Support*” option highlighted and a red arrow pointing to it

Once you select the “More” option, you should see a pop-up menu appear straight in your face with the following options:

Topics
Lists
Twitter Circle
Creator Studio
Professional Tools
Settings and Support

Select “Settings and Support” (as shown above) and keep reading!

3. Select “Settings and Privacy“

Twitter menu showing the "Settings and Privacy" option highlighted in red and a red arrow pointing to it — Twitter menu showing the “*Settings and Privacy*” option highlighted in red and a red arrow pointing to it

This is the third bloody step in the same menu – getting tired already. So, select “Settings and privacy” from the drop-down menu (as shown above) and move with the guide already!

4. Go to “Privacy and Safety“

Twitter settings where the "Privacy and safety" option is highlighted in red — Twitter settings where the “*Privacy and safety*” option is highlighted in red

We’re not far now, so don’t you leave it on me. You should now have been redirected to the settings page. The REAL settings.

Look for the “Privacy and safety” option (highlighted above) and select it to gain access to the more advanced options.

5. Select “Audience and tagging“

Twitter privacy settings showing the "Audience and tagging" option highlighted in red with a red arrow pointing to it — Twitter privacy settings show the “*Audience and tagging*” option highlighted in red with a red arrow pointing to it

This page will show you advanced settings related to your Twitter activity (there’s even a heading with this name – see the image above).

Your job now is to find the “Audience and tagging” option, which is showcased in the image above, and select it.

Then, keep reading!

6. Enable the “Protect your tweets” option

Twitter settings page where the "Protect your Tweets" option is highlighted and there's a red arrow pointing to it — Twitter settings page where the “*Protect your Tweets*” option is highlighted and there’s a red arrow pointing to it

This is it – this is the option you need to enable to make your account private. Enable the “Protect your Tweets” option and you’re done.

Oh, one last thing. Twitter will ask you to confirm. See below…

Twitter confirmation window showing the "Protect" option highlighted in red — Twitter confirmation window showing the “*Protect*” option highlighted in red

Yep, that’s the confirmation window right there (above). Select “Protect” to seal the deal and make your account private.

This will put a padlock icon around your tweets. If you want to remove the padlock, you just unprotect your tweets.

And that…is all. Now, just remember that you don’t accept any following requests from people. As long as you don’t have any followers, your tweets will be hidden.

Leave a comment below if you need more help with anything else, please!