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I wish he'd said what service he used to delete all those tweets and to auto-delete his new ones after a certain amount of time has passed.

by xiaoma 10y ago

z0noxz 10y ago
When I deleted my Facebook and Twitter I wrote a simple little js-bot which did all the work :)
tombrossman 10y ago
This is what I use: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/TwitterDelete https://github.com/mikemcquaid/TwitterDelete It's configurable, so my tweets auto-delete after 30 days unless 5+ people favorite or re-tweet them. The Ruby script has been running for several years now on my desktop without any issues (I'm using anacron on Ubuntu, because the computer is off at night when cron would normally run) There are third-party services available but I won't grant them access to my account and I prefer to do it myself.
- LordWinstanley 10y ago
  Thanks for that link. Last time I did a Twitter pruning session to remove unwanted drivel, I did it manually and it took me a couple of hours. Thank God I'm only an occasional Twitterer, so I only had a couple of hundred to wade through. What I'm really waiting for though, to make good on my desire to abandon Twitter completely, is for alternatives like GNUsocial[0] to offer the ability to import your existing Twitter archive. But, as is so often the case with open source projects, they prefer to fuck about with "me too" enhancements like adding 'transgender muslim emoji' support, rather than actually providing incentives for people to migrate easily from Twitter. [0] https://gnu.io/social/try/ https://gnu.io/social/try/
marklyon 10y ago
It's not automated, but I used Twitter Archive Eraser [0] to purge around 50k tweets around the new year. It worked well. [0] https://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/ https://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/
- remx 10y ago
  +1 for this tool. Also it deletes DMs which is handy incase your a/c is hacked and a hacker can't read through your DMs
- stevewillows 10y ago
  This is the best! I cleared out all of my social media accounts just over a year and a half ago, but did so using unreliable tools. The real joy is the ability to filter and remove. Unlike the other tools I used, this actually reduced the overall tweet count accurately. When I started fresh before, twitter was still reporting 11k tweets. Thanks for mentioning this!
- Fermat963 10y ago
  I made this tool, I'm glad it was useful for you :) I made out of frustration with other tools that didn't help with deleting my own tweets.
  - marklyon 10y ago
    Thank you! Ever thought of doing something similar for Facebook?
charlieegan3 10y ago
I've been using Timehop to review old tweets daily.
qznc 10y ago
I use https://www.tweetdelete.net/ https://www.tweetdelete.net/
- ethank 10y ago
  This one.

I wish he'd said what service he used to delete all those tweets and to auto-delete his new ones after a certain amount of time has passed.

by xiaoma 10y ago

I wish he'd said what service he used to delete all those tweets and to auto-delete his new ones after a certain amount of time has passed.

z0noxz 10y ago

When I deleted my Facebook and Twitter I wrote a simple little js-bot which did all the work :)

tombrossman 10y ago

This is what I use: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/TwitterDelete https://github.com/mikemcquaid/TwitterDelete It's configurable, so my tweets auto-delete after 30 days unless 5+ people favorite or re-tweet them. The Ruby script has been running for several years now on my desktop without any issues (I'm using anacron on Ubuntu, because the computer is off at night when cron would normally run) There are third-party services available but I won't grant them access to my account and I prefer to do it myself.

LordWinstanley 10y ago
Thanks for that link. Last time I did a Twitter pruning session to remove unwanted drivel, I did it manually and it took me a couple of hours. Thank God I'm only an occasional Twitterer, so I only had a couple of hundred to wade through. What I'm really waiting for though, to make good on my desire to abandon Twitter completely, is for alternatives like GNUsocial[0] to offer the ability to import your existing Twitter archive. But, as is so often the case with open source projects, they prefer to fuck about with "me too" enhancements like adding 'transgender muslim emoji' support, rather than actually providing incentives for people to migrate easily from Twitter. [0] https://gnu.io/social/try/ https://gnu.io/social/try/

marklyon 10y ago

It's not automated, but I used Twitter Archive Eraser [0] to purge around 50k tweets around the new year. It worked well. [0] https://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/ https://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/

remx 10y ago
+1 for this tool. Also it deletes DMs which is handy incase your a/c is hacked and a hacker can't read through your DMs
stevewillows 10y ago
This is the best! I cleared out all of my social media accounts just over a year and a half ago, but did so using unreliable tools. The real joy is the ability to filter and remove. Unlike the other tools I used, this actually reduced the overall tweet count accurately. When I started fresh before, twitter was still reporting 11k tweets. Thanks for mentioning this!
Fermat963 10y ago
I made this tool, I'm glad it was useful for you :) I made out of frustration with other tools that didn't help with deleting my own tweets.
- marklyon 10y ago
  Thank you! Ever thought of doing something similar for Facebook?

charlieegan3 10y ago

I've been using Timehop to review old tweets daily.

qznc 10y ago

I use https://www.tweetdelete.net/ https://www.tweetdelete.net/

ethank 10y ago
This one.