TwitterDelete 💀 (archived)

TwitterDelete was a small application to delete your old, unpopular tweets and likes.

Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead

https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922

I have zero interest maintaining anything using the Twitter API given this.

If you're still using Twitter: get yourself to Mastodon which:

• has TwitterDelete behaviour already built-in as a feature
• is nice like Twitter was 10 years ago

Come on, follow me on Mastodon, it's lovely over here.

Features

• Delete, unlike and unretweet tweets
• Keep tweets based on age and tweaks based on retweet or favourite count
• Delete tweets no longer exposed by Twitter API from a downloaded Twitter archive file

Usage

To setup locally run:

git clone https://github.com/mikemcquaid/TwitterDelete
cd TwitterDelete
bundle install

Get the Twitter API variables from https://apps.twitter.com and add the following variables to a .env file in the TwitterDelete folder:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=...
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=...
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=...
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=...

Now run TwitterDelete:

./twitter_delete.rb --user TwitterUsername

If you fork this PR you can also used the GitHub Actions scheduled workflow combined with secrets on your fork to run this automatically.

Status

Works for deleting relevant tweet and likes. I delete my old tweets and am not actively working on improving this but I will accept pull requests.

Contact

Mike McQuaid

License

TwitterDelete is licensed under the AGPLv3 License. The full license text is available in LICENSE.txt.