Delete Tweets

README.md

I want to delete all my tweets without deleting my account.

This script deletes your tweets and repost from twitter without using the Twitter API, just by using the firefox javascript scratchpad.

Chage YOURNAME in the script below.

The script is quite slow but it works so far , I set some long timeout to let the DOM document to (re)load.

May be it could be much faster but I'm not a javascript guy.

• Open https://twitter.com/USERNAME
• Open the Firefox Developer Tools Firefox > Tools > Browsers Tool > Web developer Tools. Go to the "Web Console" tab ( https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/ )
• paste the javascript code into the Command line intrepreter https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/web_console/the_command_line_interpreter/index.html
• wait...

delete.tweets.js

function confirmDelete() {
	var iter = document.evaluate("//span[text()='Delete' and  @style='text-overflow: unset;']",document,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
	for(;;) {
	    var a = iter.iterateNext();
	    if(a==null) break;
	    console.log("confirm "+a);
	    setTimeout(function() {
			a.click();
		},2000);
	     break;
	    }
	}
function moreDelete() {
    console.log("moreDelete");
  	var iter = document.evaluate("//span[text()='Delete']",document,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
	for(;;) {
		var a = iter.iterateNext();
		if(a==null) break;
		console.log("moreDel "+a);
	    a.click();
		setTimeout(confirmDelete,1000);
		break;
		}
	}

function undoRepost() {
	console.log("unretweet");
  	var iter = document.evaluate("//span[text()='Undo repost']",document,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
	for(;;) {
		var a = iter.iterateNext();
		if(a==null) break;
		console.log("undo report "+a);
		setTimeout(function() {
			a.click();
			},2000);
		break;
		}
	}

function removeArticles() {
	var L=[];
	var iter = document.evaluate("//article[not(.//span/text()='YOURNAME')]",document,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
	for(;;) {
		var a = iter.iterateNext();
    	if(a==null) break;
    	L.push(a);
		}
	for(i in L) {
		var a=L[i];
		if(a!=null && a.parentNode!=null) a.parentNode.removeChild(a);
		}
	}

function collect() {
  removeArticles();
  console.log("colllect");
  if(Math.random()<0.5) {
	  var iter = document.evaluate("//div[@aria-label='More' and @role='button']",document,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
	  for(;;) {
		var a = iter.iterateNext();
		if(a==null) break;
		console.log("post "+a);
		a.click();
		setTimeout(moreDelete,2000);
		break;
		}
	  }
  else {
	  var iter = document.evaluate("//div[contains(@aria-label,'Reposted') and @role='button' and @data-testid='unretweet']",document,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
	 for(;;) {
		var a = iter.iterateNext();
		if(a==null) break;
		console.log("undoRepost "+a);
		a.click();
		setTimeout(undoRepost,2000);
		break;
		}
    }
} 

setInterval(collect, 10000);