XWipe Quick Delete Not Working: Causes & Step-by-Step Fixes

If XWipe's Quick Delete stalls or appears frozen, the cause is almost always X's API rate limit of about 50 deletions per 15 minutes (~4,800 per day) — XWipe is working; it's pacing your job to stay within X's limit.

XWipe (getxwipe.com) is a web tool for bulk-deleting tweets, likes, retweets, bookmarks, DMs, and follows on X (Twitter). It is not a phone photo-cleaning app, a keyboard swipe gesture, or an email swipe setting. If you landed here looking for any of those, this isn't the page you need.

For everyone else: your deletions are most likely fine. Below is what Quick Delete does, the rate limit that explains most "stuck" jobs, and a short fix list for the other causes — in order of how common they are.

What Quick Delete actually does

Quick Delete is the fast path for recent posts. It loads up to 3,200 of your most recent tweets in about 20 to 30 seconds, then deletes them in the background (figures as of June 2026).

That 3,200 number isn't an XWipe choice — X's API only exposes your 3,200 most recent tweets to any third-party tool. To reach anything older, including posts from 2012, you upload your X data archive instead. That's a separate flow called Archive Upload.

The #1 cause: X's rate limit (not a bug)

X limits how fast any tool can delete: about 50 deletions every 15 minutes, roughly 4,800 per day (as of June 2026). This applies to every deletion tool, not just XWipe. No tool can go faster.

That's why a large job looks "stuck." It isn't frozen — it's pacing itself so X doesn't block your account. In real time:

What to do: leave it running. XWipe processes deletions in the background, so you don't have to babysit the tab. Close it, come back later, and check your progress. If the on-screen counter is moving — even slowly — nothing is wrong. That's the rate limit doing its job.

Other causes and quick fixes

If your counter is fully stopped — not slow, stopped — work through these in order.

1. Your X session expired

XWipe connects to your X account through an authorization that can expire. When it does, the job doesn't fail — it pauses and shows: "Paused — your X session expired. Reconnect your X account and this job resumes automatically from where it left off." You'll also see a "Reconnect your X account" banner on your dashboard.

Fix: click Reconnect X (or sign in with X again). The paused job resumes on its own from where it stopped — you don't lose progress and don't need to restart it.

2. A browser extension or ad-blocker is interfering

Privacy extensions and ad-blockers sometimes block the requests XWipe needs. Fix: allowlist getxwipe.com in your ad-blocker, or run the job in a fresh window with extensions disabled.

3. You've hit the 3,200 recent-post limit

Quick Delete can only reach your most recent 3,200 posts. If it cleared those and stopped, that's expected — the rest of your history lives in your archive. Fix: use Archive Upload to delete posts older than the most recent 3,200.

4. You're out of credits

Deletions draw on your plan's allowance. As of June 2026: Pay-as-you-go is 100 deletions for $2, Starter 500/month, Pro 1,500/month, and the one-time Nuke 2,500. Fix: check your balance in your dashboard; if you're out, top up and the job resumes.

5. X is having an outage

Sometimes the problem is on X's end. If X's API is down, no tool can delete. Fix: wait and retry in an hour — you don't lose your place; the job resumes when X recovers.

Still stuck?

If you've checked your session, credits, and extensions and Quick Delete still won't move, contact us with your account email and roughly how many deletions you're trying to run, and we'll look at the job directly.

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