Tom Scott's Tweleted demonstrated this a couple years ago, back when Twitter search.twitter.com showed deleted tweets. Knowing that it doesn't erase history,

Tom Scott's Tweleted demonstrated this a couple years ago, back when Twitter search.twitter.com showed deleted tweets. Knowing that it doesn't erase history, I still routinely delete inconsequential tweets, particularly @replies, to make my public twitter timeline page more representative of what someone who follows me will see.