tweet_deleter.sh

# Usage:
# 1. Install twurl from RubyGems
# 2. Create a Twitter app at https://apps.twitter.com/ (if you don't have one)
# 3. twurl authorize --consumer-key ldny[...]ulfQ --consumer-secret MTXY[...]TRsI
# 4. bash tweet_deleter.sh 2010-05 tweets.csv

# Use at your own risk ;)

tweet_date=$1
tweet_file=$2

for tweet_id in $(awk -F'"' '/^"[0-9]+","[0-9]*\","[0-9]*","'$tweet_date'/ {print $2}'  $tweet_file); do
	twurl -X POST /1.1/statuses/destroy/$tweet_id.json
	sleep 15
done