How to Stop Twitter and X Emails
Quick answer: To stop Twitter and X emails, open a recent Twitter and X email and unsubscribe, then go to your Twitter and X notification settings at https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/updating-email-preferences and switch off the categories you don't want. Twitter and X controls its email by category, so one unsubscribe click usually stops only a single type. To clear the backlog, search from:x.com in Gmail and bulk delete.
What Twitter and X actually sends you
Twitter and X sends new follower and mention notifications, direct message notifications, top posts and 'in case you missed it' digests, recommendations and marketing, and login and security alerts. Its email comes from x.com, e.x.com. The reason your inbox fills up is that these are often separate lists or notification types, so switching off one doesn't stop the rest.
How to stop Twitter and X emails, step by step
- Unsubscribe from a recent email. Open a recent Twitter and X email and use its unsubscribe link.
- Turn it off at the source. Open Twitter and X's email or notification settings at https://help.x.com/en/managing-your-account/updating-email-preferences (Settings and privacy > Notifications > Preferences > Email notifications > turn off the master switch (or uncheck individual types)) and turn off the categories you don't want.
Does unsubscribing from Twitter and X actually work?
Email notifications are driven by per-type checkboxes in Notifications > Preferences > Email notifications. Clicking the unsubscribe link in a footer only unchecks that one notification type rather than stopping all email. To go fully quiet, turn off the master 'Email notifications' toggle, which greys out all the sub-options. Changes save automatically. That's the part most "how to unsubscribe" guides miss, and it's why Twitter and X email often keeps arriving after people think they've opted out.
Clear out the Twitter and X emails already in your inbox
Unsubscribing stops new mail. It doesn't remove what's already there. On desktop Gmail, search from:x.com, click the select-all checkbox, then click "Select all conversations that match this search", and hit the trash icon. Empty Trash to reclaim the storage.
If Twitter and X is just one of many senders crowding your inbox, MailMop ranks every sender by volume so you can bulk delete and unsubscribe across all of them in one pass, in your browser. MailMop users have cleared over 2 million emails this way.
A couple of Twitter and X-specific tips
- Flip the single top 'Email notifications' toggle off to disable everything at once instead of unchecking each row.
- Legitimate X email comes only from @x.com or @e.x.com (formerly @twitter.com). Treat other senders as phishing.