how to hide seen messages on tiwtter

On X/Twitter, you can hide “seen” status by turning off read receipts in Direct Messages. That stops other people from seeing when you’ve opened their messages.

Steps

1. Open the X app.
2. Go to Messages.
3. Open Settings or Settings and privacy.
4. Tap Privacy and safety.
5. Tap Direct messages.
6. Turn off Show read receipts.

On desktop

• Open X in your browser.
• Go to More.
• Open Settings and privacy.
• Select Privacy and safety.
• Open Direct Messages.
• Uncheck Show read receipts.

A couple of notes

• If read receipts are off, other people won’t get the “seen” indicator when you read their DMs.

• Some guides also mention reading from notifications or message requests as privacy-friendly workarounds, but the main setting is still the read-receipts toggle.

TL;DR: turn off Show read receipts in X’s DM privacy settings.