nuke your twitter history

tweetnuke.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Modified from https://gist.github.com/robinsloan/3688616
# This version will nuke your entire twitter history past a certain threshold.
# It requires you to download your archive from twitter and put "tweets.csv" 
# in the same directory as this script.
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
require 'json'
require 'faraday'
require 'csv'
require 'time'

# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your user name here"

# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = ""
CONSUMER_SECRET = ""
OAUTH_TOKEN = "aka access key"
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "aka access secret"

# things you might want to change
MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 10 # anything older than this is deleted
DELAY_BETWEEN_DELETES = 0.5 # in seconds
DELAY_BETWEEN_REQS = 45

# save tweets that have been massively favorited or retweeted??? nah. all is vanity.
# "points" are number of favs plus the number of RTs
POINT_THRESHOLD = 9999

# don't delete these (maybe a pinned tweet? an old favorite? whatever)
IDS_TO_SAVE_FOREVER = []

# you don't need to mess with this
API_TWEET_MAX = 3200
TWEETS_PER_PAGE = 200 # api max is 250 or something... 200 seems like a nice round number
NUM_PAGES = (API_TWEET_MAX / TWEETS_PER_PAGE).to_i
MAX_AGE_IN_SECONDS = MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS*24*60*60
NOW_IN_SECONDS = Time.now

client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key        = CONSUMER_KEY
  config.consumer_secret     = CONSUMER_SECRET
  config.access_token        = OAUTH_TOKEN
  config.access_token_secret = OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET
end

def delete_from_twitter(tweet,client)
  begin
    client.destroy_status(tweet.id)
  rescue StandardError => e
    puts e.inspect
    puts "Error deleting #{tweet.id} "
    # exit
  else
    puts "Deleted"
  end
end

timeline = CSV.read("tweets.csv")
keys = timeline.shift

puts "Got #{timeline.size} tweets"
puts ""

keep_count = 0
del_count = 0

to_lookup = timeline.select do |tweet|
  NOW_IN_SECONDS - Time.parse(tweet[3]) > MAX_AGE_IN_SECONDS
end
to_lookup.each_slice(100) do |set|
  ids = set.map {|tweet| tweet[0] }
  puts "Getting #{ids.size} tweets, #{ids.first} .. #{ids.last}"
  tweets = client.statuses(ids)
  received = tweets.size
  puts "Got #{received} tweets"
  puts ""
  to_delete = tweets.select do |tweet|
    tweet.favorite_count + tweet.retweet_count < POINT_THRESHOLD || tweet.text.match(/^RT/)
  end
  keep_count += (received - to_delete.size)
  to_delete.each do |tweet|
    del_count += 1
    puts "Deleting tweet from #{tweet.created_at} with #{tweet.favorite_count} faves, #{tweet.retweet_count} RTs:"
    puts tweet.text
    puts ""
    delete_from_twitter(tweet, client)
  end
  sleep DELAY_BETWEEN_DELETES * 10
  puts "Ignored #{keeping} tweets, deleted #{to_delete.size}"
end

puts "deleted #{del_count}"