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   Luca Hammer (luca@social.luca.run)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:40:20 JST Luca Hammer

   I heard that the tools to delete all your Tweets don't work anymore. This script allows you to delete them anyways: https://gist.github.com/lucahammer/1aa16b4d3c1fb04035839da5ef699d65

   - #Xcorp may view it as a violation of their terms (automation) and ban your account. Use at your own risk.
   - At least in the EU you have a right to delete your own data which overrules any company terms.
   - This only removes them from your profile, Tweets may still exist in backups and other places.

   I wasn't able to get the script to run unsupervised. After some time the timeline stays empty and you have to manually reload the page and run the script again. Currently, I am testing it with a 15 year old account with 19 k Tweets. I had to reload every 500 Tweets on average. After adjusting the script to not hit the rate-limit (50 requests per minute), it should run with less interruptions. But the Xcorp infrastructure is unreliable. #twitter

   2023-09-19 Initial release
   2023-09-19 Replies get deleted as well. Script switches between Tweets and Replies until neither returns new results.

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     Luca Hammer (luca@social.luca.run)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:40:18 JST Luca Hammer

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     Because I was only able to delete a few thousand Tweets from my profile, I had to write a new script to delete old Tweets. This one works with the tweets.js file from the Twitter Data Export to delete Tweets that aren't visible on the profile or search.

     1. Log into Twitter with Firefox
     2. Have at least one visible post on your profile
     3. Paste code to browser console (F12)
     4. A new area appears at the top of the page
     5. Choose your tweets.js file
     6. Wait for Tweets to vanish (takes long)

     Script: https://gist.github.com/lucahammer/a4d1e957ec9e061e3cccafcbed599e16 #XCorp #twitter

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     Luca Hammer (luca@social.luca.run)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 01:40:19 JST Luca Hammer

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     Short video for people who haven't used the browser developer tools yet.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.