Delete tweets

Delete tweets (or just replies or retweets) from your timeline, including tweets beyond the 3,200 tweet limit.

Dependencies

• python-twitter (pip install python-twitter)
• python-dateutil (pip install python-dateutil)

Setup

1. Create a new Twitter app at https://apps.twitter.com/
2. Get the API key and secret of the app, and assign it to API_KEY and API_SECRET respectively
3. Generate the access token and secret, and assign it to ACCESS_TOKEN and ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET respectively
4. Set the permissions of your app to Read and Write
5. Request the Twitter archive at https://twitter.com/settings/account
6. Replace tweets.csv with the CSV file from the requested Twitter archive

Run

• Usage: deletetweets.py -h
• E.g., delete all retweets until July 1, 2013: deletetweets.py -d "2013-07-01" -r "retweet"