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Ok... can anyone personally recommend any specific script- or code-based solutions for bulk deleting tweets from Twitter?
All of the GitHub repos and other scripts I have found are either outdated and don't work, or are so poorly documented that I can't make them work with the available information.
Thanks in advance for your URLs!
PLEASE NOTE: I'm not looking for generic links. I'm looking for your personal recommendations for tools you have personally used successfully.
@SQLAllFather i used this and just paid the $7 standard tier to kill my tweet history. https://www.tweeteraser.com/
@jenk It looks like I'm going to go down this path too. After running into too many undocumented errors/behaviors in the Twitter API and too many dead links in their developer docs, throwing seven bucks at a 3rd party sounds like a bargian.
FFS.
@SQLAllFather That's what I figured at the time, crossing fingers their API isn't blocked because it sounds like many are getting blocked already.
@jenk I guess we'll find out. I was looking forward to the opportunity to writing (or at least editing for purpose) a little Python, but 
...
@SQLAllFather @jenk I did grab a download of my tweet history a few weeks ago. But I hadn’t planned on deleting everything… Totally agree I don’t want to support that platform anymore though, so perhaps I’ll do the same.
@sqlchick @jenk I hadn't been planning to do this, but with the increasingly awful actions by Twitter and their owner, I'd prefer to do it now before they take the option away.
If I didn't have a few long-running conversations with money involved (down-payments placed on custom swords 
) I might have just deleted my account if I couldn't make this bulk delete work.
@jenk I've had this progress message for 16+ hours at this point. I sure hope it's actually working.
@SQLAllFather Can you look at Twitter? Occasionally I was doing that and seeing the count go down. Twitter could also be throttling so it takes longer to complete?
@jenk I see the same number on Twitter.
@SQLAllFather Any change in progress?
@jenk Nope. Same message displayed, same tweet count.
I guess once I can transfer my swordsmith conversations over to email, it'll be time to permanently delete my Twitter account.
FFS.
@SQLAllFather Well, shit. Mine definitely didn’t take hours, I had about half as many tweets as you volume wise. Unless the support team can help, ya, deleting may be the only option.
@jenk It was going to happen eventually, once the bullies started running the school.
@SQLAllFather @jenk
It should be possible to write a PowerShell script that calls Twitter's internal APIs to delete your tweets. You'd just have to give it your browser's session cookie for Twitter, which you can copy from Edge DevTools. Hmm, I might just make this my next side project.
@JamesDBartlett3 @jenk If you have this ready this week, I'd be a happy tester. I looked for a "browser extension not relying on the API" option last week without success, so i'll keep my hopes low.
@SQLAllFather
Don't know if this still works...
https://semiphemeral.com
"There's also an open source version that's for advanced users who want total control. It requires using the terminal, generating your own Twitter API keys, and if you want to automate it, setting up a server with a cron job. But you don't need to give Semiphemeral.com any access to your Twitter account, and it has a few more features."
@Hibourdon Thank you!
Unfortunately, my window of opportunity has closed so I can't look at this more closely. I had time to look at this over the weekend, but now I have real work to do. my exploration over the weekend leads me to believe that Twitter has made API changes to prevent this type of "cleanup". Ah well...