TwitterDelete

One amazing use of the twitter API is to be able to mass delete your favs, rts, and tweets. It's the only thing I use it for as the API and platform as a whole is otherwise hostile. https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/TwitterDelete

I also recently deleted most of my >10K tweets after signing up around 10 years. I'm keeping certain tweets that have a specified string in them, and I'm keeping all the favourites. I used this Ruby application to do so, together with the archive CSV, customising it a bit. https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/TwitterDelete I think Twitter became less local or personal and became more serious.

This is what I use: 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.

I have a very similar attitude towards bot accounts. Early on, they were instantly recognizable and took no time to identify and block. Now that I'm doing it for a while, I feel obliged to continue and I've discovered that some bot accounts look semi-legit at first (Twitter's 'uncanny valley') but that dragging their profile image into Google's reverse image search would give them away. Same image, loads of different accounts all almost normal but when viewed as a group they were obvious fakes. Curating your Twitter followers list is just a matter of personal preference, nothing more. And I'm definitely a 'tweet deleter' after reading this article[0] and agreeing with the premise that Twitter messages aren't that important to preserve. I'd rather deny data miners the ability to better profile me than keep old messages. The article's linke