--- title: This App Will Prevent You From Drunk Tweeting description: You have to input how many hours you plan to be drunk—between one and ten canonical: https://time.com/3581965/app-prevents-drunk-tweeting/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-15T16:00:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:34.639Z og:title: This App Is Supposed to Stop You from Drunk Tweeting og:description: You have to input how many hours you plan to be drunk—between one and ten og:url: https://time.com/3581965/app-prevents-drunk-tweeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8d832856c6cefb/69876871f887dca904e88573/bottles-of-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3508 og:image:height: 1973 og:image:alt: bottles of alcohol og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This App Is Supposed to Stop You from Drunk Tweeting twitter:description: You have to input how many hours you plan to be drunk—between one and ten twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8d832856c6cefb/69876871f887dca904e88573/bottles-of-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This App Is Supposed to Prevent You from Sending Drunk Tweets > Sponsored content. 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Drunk Message Blocker will completely shut down your access to social media. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, no Snapchat. It’s not the first app designed to protect the drunk smartphone user, but what sets it apart is that it’s the first one to stop you from using your social networks. It’s also incredibly strict. Even if you delete the app from your phone you still aren’t going to be able to put up that embarrassing picture on Facebook. As with other apps designed to avoid drunken mistakes you’ll later regret, this one does require some advanced planning. You have to input how many hours you plan to be drunk—between one and ten (if you’re going to be drunk for ten hours you should probably just leave your phone at home because there is a 100 percent chance you’re going to lose it). But until your phone can detect your blood-alcohol level through your skin, there will always be a manual component. Still, an app that can keep you from messing up your life in 140 characters is something we could all use from time to time. [Drunk Message Blocker](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vn.ibit.AppLocker) is free in the Google Play store. _More from Food & Wine:_ * [3-D Camera App Will Make Food Photography That Much More Addictive](http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/secrets/3-d-camera-app-will-make-food-photography-much-more-addictive?xid=PS%5Ftime) * [Learn How to Play 6 Fun, Strange & Potentially Deadly Historical Drinking Games](http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/learn-how-play-6-fun-strange-potentially-deadly-historical-drinking-games?xid=PS%5Ftime) * [10 Low-Key Cocktails That Are Perfect for Day Drinking](http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/drink/10-low-key-cocktails-are-perfect-day-drinking?xid=PS%5Ftime) * [20 Fall Cocktails](http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/fall-cocktails?xid=PS%5Ftime) * [America’s Best Happy Hours](http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/americas-best-happy-hours/1?xid=PS%5Ftime) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3581965/app-prevents-drunk-tweeting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3581965/app-prevents-drunk-tweeting/"},"headline":"This App Is Supposed to Prevent You from Sending Drunk Tweets","datePublished":"2014-11-15T16:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:34.639Z","description":"You have to input how many hours you plan to be drunk—between one and ten","url":"https://time.com/3581965/app-prevents-drunk-tweeting/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Food & Drink","Internet","apps","Tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8d832856c6cefb/69876871f887dca904e88573/bottles-of-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Kaufman / Food & Wine"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2c8d832856c6cefb/69876871f887dca904e88573/bottles-of-alcohol.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"bottles of alcohol","caption":"bottles of alcohol","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3581965/app-prevents-drunk-tweeting/","name":"This App Is Supposed to Prevent You from Sending Drunk Tweets"}}]}] ```