You liked something at 2am that you would not have liked at 2pm, and now you are wondering who saw it.
The short version is reassuring, with one exception that catches almost everybody out.
Your History section holds four things: Bookmarks, Likes, Articles, and Long Videos. Nobody can browse any of it. There is no way for another person to open your profile and page through what you saved, liked, read, or watched. The Likes tab that used to sit publicly on profiles is gone, and the rest of that section was never public in the first place.
The exception is this: the author of a post can see who liked it. Not the like count, which everyone sees, but the actual list of accounts. So while nobody can browse your likes as a collection, every individual person whose post you liked can see that you did.
That distinction is the whole answer, and it changes what is worth doing about it.
What Is and Is Not Visible
Bookmarks: private. Only you can see them. There is no mechanism for anyone else to view what you have saved, and no notification to the author when you bookmark their post. Bookmarks are private and nobody else can see them cover this properly.
Your Likes tab: private. Since the June 2024 privacy change, other users cannot view the posts you have liked. Your followers cannot either. Why you cannot see your likes where they used to be explains the relocation, and whether you can see someone else's likes answers the reverse question, which is also no.
Individual likes on someone's post: visible to that author. This is the exception. Post authors can see the list of accounts that liked their posts. You cannot see who liked somebody else's post, but they can.
Like counts: public. The number on any post is visible to everyone. Only the identities behind it are restricted.
Articles and Long Videos history: private. What you have read and watched is a personal record and is not exposed to other accounts.
📌 The practical translation: your likes are not browsable, but they are not invisible either. Every account you have ever liked has, in principle, been able to see you in their notifications. Privacy from strangers is not the same as privacy from the person you engaged with.
Where Your History Still Leaks
Four situations where "private" is doing less work than it sounds.
The author saw it. Covered above, and it is the one that matters most. If the concern is a specific person noticing a specific like, the privacy change did not help you.
Anything captured before June 2024. Likes were publicly browsable for years. Screenshots exist, third party archives exist, and none of that was retroactively erased by a policy change. Old public likes are only private going forward.
Your own device. Anyone with your unlocked phone opens the History section as easily as you do. Platform privacy is not device privacy.
The algorithm. This is the one people never think about, and it is arguably the most consequential. Your like history is an active behavioural signal that shapes your For You feed, your recommendations, and the topics X associates with your account. It does not display your history to anyone, but it does act on it, continuously, based on things you liked years ago in a completely different context.
⚠️ If you share a screen in meetings, present from your phone, or hand your device to anyone, the For You feed is the leak. It is assembled from your engagement history and it shows up in front of whoever is looking at the screen.
What Is Circleboom Twitter?
Circleboom is an Official X Enterprise Developer, working through X's official APIs.
- Removes your entire like history using your X archive, reaching back past the recent window the API exposes
- Filters what gets removed by date, keyword, and other criteria, so a full wipe is optional rather than the only choice
- Handles recent likes through the API when you only need the last stretch cleared rather than everything
- Clears bookmarks separately, since they are a different record in the same section
- Applies the same archive based approach to old posts when the cleanup is broader than likes
Why Clear a Like History That Nobody Can See
This is the fair question, and there are three honest answers.
Because the person whose post you liked can see it. Removing a like removes it from that list. If the concern is a specific past engagement rather than a general audience, this is the only thing that addresses it.
Because the signal keeps working. Years of accumulated likes continue shaping what X shows you and what it thinks your account is about. A like history spanning several jobs, phases, and interests produces a feed calibrated to a person you may no longer be. Clearing it is one of the more direct ways to change what surfaces, which is the same territory as resetting your X algorithm and whether a reset is possible without a new account.
Because of what a screenshot from 2019 could still contain. The privacy change is not retroactive against material already captured, and a clean current record is worth more than an argument about what used to be visible.
There are also the ordinary reasons: handing an account to someone else, a brand reset, or separating a professional account from years of personal engagement. Whether to delete old posts and what to keep applies the same thinking to the content side, and whether deleting affects the algorithm is worth reading before a large cleanup.
How to Delete Your Entire Like History
- Decide how far back you need to go. Recent likes can be cleared through the API without any archive, covering up to your latest 3,200 liked posts. Anything older than that window requires your X archive, because the API does not expose the full history for long lived accounts.
- Request your X archive from X's own settings if you need the complete history. This is a download you request from the platform directly, not something a third party can produce for you.
- Find the like.js file inside the archive folder. It is the likes equivalent of tweet.js, and it is the only file this workflow needs.
- Open Delete All Likes in Circleboom Twitter and follow the three step wizard. Start, upload, filter. Upload like.js at step two.
- Check the total it reports. After processing, the count of liked posts appears. For an account that has been active for years, this number is usually considerably higher than people expect.
- Notice that everything is pre-selected. All uploaded likes are checked by default, which is right for a full reset and wrong if you only meant to clear a period. Deselect before proceeding.
- Apply filters if a full wipe is more than you want. You can narrow by date and other criteria to remove a specific era rather than the entire history, which is usually the better decision.
- Review the count on the Approve and Delete panel. This is the last checkpoint before anything is permanent.
- Confirm and let it run. The removal is permanent and there is no undo.
- Re-upload the same file later for a different pass. You can upload the archive again in a separate session and apply different filters, so a cautious first pass does not lock you out of a broader second one.
- Export first if you want a record of what you liked. Downloading your likes preserves the list before it is cleared, which matters if any of it was research rather than approval.
- Do bookmarks as a separate job. They sit in the same History section but are a different record, and clearing likes does nothing to them.
For the lighter versions of this, the fastest way to unlike everything you have ever liked, deleting likes in bulk, the best app for clearing likes at once, unliking on iPhone, and deleting likes on iPhone all cover narrower cases. Finding the oldest post you ever liked is a good way to see how far back the history actually goes before you decide.
The Rest of Your Footprint
Likes and bookmarks are the part people ask about. They are not the whole picture.
Your following list is public. Who you follow is visible to anyone, and it says more about your interests than your likes do. Preventing people from seeing your following list, hiding your followers list, and whether a protected account hides it cover the limited options.
Your posts are indexed elsewhere. Deleting posts from Google search results is a separate problem from deleting them on X, and the two do not happen at the same speed.
Your archive is its own artefact. Clearing your X history, deleting the archive itself, and retrieving archived posts all matter if the archive file is sitting in a downloads folder.
Lists you are on are visible. Checking which lists you appear on is worth doing once, because other people's lists can categorise you in ways you never agreed to.
Direct messages. Checking your DM history covers what is stored there.
FAQ
Can someone see my X likes?
Not as a list. Since June 2024 the Likes tab is private and other users cannot browse what you have liked. However, the author of any individual post can see that you liked it.
Can people see my bookmarks?
No. Bookmarks are private, there is no way for anyone else to view them, and the author is not notified when you bookmark a post.
Who can see who liked a post?
The post's author. Everyone else sees only the like count, not the identities behind it.
Are my likes from before 2024 private now?
They are private on the platform now, but the change was not retroactive against anything already captured. Screenshots and third party archives from when likes were public still exist.
Does anyone see what articles or videos I have watched?
No. That part of the History section is a personal record and is not exposed to other accounts.
If likes are private, why delete them?
Three reasons: the author of each liked post can see it, your like history actively shapes your For You feed and recommendations, and old material captured while likes were public is still out there.
Can I delete likes older than 3,200?
Yes, through your X archive. The API only exposes a recent window, so full history removal uses the like.js file from the archive download instead.
Does deleting likes affect my account?
It removes engagement signals that influence recommendations and personalization. It does not delete the posts you liked, and it does not notify anyone.
Is deleting likes reversible?
No. Once removed, likes cannot be restored, which is why exporting the list first is worth the extra step if the history has any reference value.
Final Thoughts
Nobody can sit down and read through your X history. Bookmarks, likes, articles, and videos are all yours to see and nobody else's to browse.
What survives that reassurance is narrower and more specific: the person whose post you liked saw it, anything captured while likes were public is still captured, and the history itself keeps quietly steering what X puts in front of you.
If any of those matter, the fix is not a privacy setting. With Circleboom Twitter, you can clear your full like history on X, including the years the API cannot reach, and decide for yourself how much of an old engagement record is worth carrying.
https://circleboom.com/twitter-management-tool/unlike-delete-all-twitter-likes
