delete-old-tweets

A simple utility script that deletes your old tweets based on a given cut off date.

Motivation for creating this utility is on my blog post.

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🛆 Read before proceeding

Due to twitter's API rate limit, by default, a limit of 100 deletions has been set when you execute the script. There is also a hard limit of 2400 updates to tweets per day. Please be aware of the rate limits, otherwise your account may be suspended.

Installation

• Tested on NodeJs v18.x
• npm install

Quick Start

• Request your twitter data from Twitter (link). You will receive an email in your email with a download link to your data, this may take a some time especially if you have a lot of twitter data.

• You need a valid Twitter developer credentials in the form of a set of consumer and access tokens/keys (link). You will also need to grant write permission to your application.

• Extract your twitter data and copy data/tweets.js into the scripts working directory

• Copy the sample .env file cp .env.sample .env

• Edit the .env file and replace the placeholders with your twitter app tokens/keys obtained earlier

  TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=**your key**
  TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=**your secret**
  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY=**your token key**
  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=**your token secret**
  

• Execute the script (below will delete 100 tweets before 2011-01-01)

  • node index.js -d 2011-01-01
    • -d - cutoff date in yyyy-mm-dd format
    • -n - number of tweets to delete (optional, default to 100)

• IDs of deleted tweets will be written to deleted.js

• Rerun the script to continue the next batch of tweets

To see all of the scripts options, please run node index.js -h

Contributors

Originally authored by @hbish

Special thanks to Twitter for Node.js for the awesome twitter client.