This approach requires a proper shell, a working Ruby installation, and some basic unix programs like grep
and tr
.
If we're already in too deep for you, bribe a friendly nerd with some food or something to help you; walking you through setup of these things, especially if you're on Windows, will probably result in more frustration than it's worth, and is way outside the scope here.
This can be time consuming, but it's not terribly technically challenging, so preferrably find someone you like, because you're going to be hanging out a bit.
The good news is this approach is far less time consuming than trying to do this through any other client; the web app in particular requires three clicks per tweet, constant scrolling, and makes it impossible to delete RTs made before the Aug 2015 syntax switch. It's still going to take you a while, especially if you've pushed up over 10k or 20k tweets; more than that and this will still likely be a multi-day project. Due to limitations of the Twitter API, and some foib