Events
Fires when a previously delivered post, reply, or quote is deleted. Carries the same fields as the original event so your UI can re-render with deleted styling.
A deleted event mirrors the event we previously delivered for the same post. Every field you saw at create time arrives again, with three changes:
typeis now"deleted"deletedKindcarries the original type:"post","reply", or"quote"latencyMsis the delete-detection latency, not the original create-to-delivery latency
Fields
A deleted event carries exactly the same fields as the original post, reply, or quote event it replays. The only changes are these three:
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
type | "deleted" | |
deletedKind | "post" | "reply" | "quote" | The original event type |
latencyMs | number | null | Wall-clock from the delete to delivery |
Every other field matches the original event byte-for-byte: id, url, author, text, media, createdAtMs, plus replyTo* for reply variants and quoted* for quote variants.
Example
If we previously delivered a post event, the matching deleted event looks like the same payload with the three fields swapped:
{
"type": "deleted",
"id": "2062662195192697233",
"url": "https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2062662195192697233",
"author": {
"id": "44196397",
"username": "elonmusk",
"displayName": "Elon Musk",
"verified": true,
"verifiedType": "blue"
},
"text": "Starlink V3 satellites have >10X bandwidth of V2 and there'll be >10X launched, which means >100X more bandwidth...",
"createdAtMs": 1780611964000,
"latencyMs": 42,
"media": [],
"article": null,
"poll": null,
"symbols": [],
"deletedKind": "post"
}Media stays available
When the deleted post had media, the media[].url (and posterUrl for video and GIF) point to cdn.corex.gg. We keep a copy of the original media so your UI can render the deleted post with its images and video frames even after X removes them.
What about repost?
repost has no deleted variant. X doesn’t distinguish “user undid their repost” from “original post was deleted”; both surface the same way upstream. If the original post is deleted, you receive a deleted event for that original post (with the original author), independent of who reposted it.