Twitter Delete Yourself is a Go application for deleting your Tweets, while preserving part of your history for n amount of time. It also supports consuming a Twitter JSON backup once you convert the tweet.js
to tweet.json
by opening it up, removing the variable, and leaving only the array.
Visit https://developer.twitter.com, and then sign in, and go to Username
> Apps | Create an App, and fill in the form in as much detail as possible. Be prepared to wait a day or two, for me it took an hour (as I already had an app,) for some people it might take longer, so don't get upset if you don't get approved instantly.
export TWITTER_TOKEN=""
export TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET=""
export TWITTER_SECRET_KEY=""
export TWITTER_KEY=""
- Visit https://github.com/envygeeks/tweedy/releases/latest
- Download a binary
- Make sure it matches your operating system
- Make sure it matches your arch
mv ~/Downloads/<Binary> /usr/local/bin/tweedy
tweedy --user=<Handle> \
--keep=<Days>