Delete all tweets with tweepy. Sometimes twitter forgets to tell you you have more tweets, so you have to run it later.

delete_all_tweets.py

''' Bulk delete all your tweets and likes.

Doesn't delete media. Twitter does a terrible job dredging tweets, expect to have to rerun this a few weeks later, I am still not done after my 2nd pass a few weeks later. The "X tweets" seems to be accurate even though none are dispayed.

Export these with a shell script:

export TWITTER_USERNAME=
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=
'''
import os
import time
import tweepy

def setup_tweepy():
    consumer_key = os.environ.get('TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY')
    consumer_secret = os.environ.get('TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET')
    access_token = os.environ.get('TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN')
    access_token_secret = os.environ.get('TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET')

    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    api = tweepy.API(auth)
    return api

def delete_most_recent_tweets(count=100):
    tweepy_api = setup_tweepy()
    user = tweepy_api.get_user(USER)

    for status in tweepy.Cursor(tweepy_api.user_timeline, count=count, include_rts=True).items():
        print(status.text)
        resp = tweepy_api.destroy_status(status.id)
        time.sleep(0.1)

def delete_most_recent_likes(count=100):
    tweepy_api = setup_tweepy()
    user = tweepy_api.get_user(USER)
    favorites_page = tweepy_api.favorites(id=user.id, count=count)
    print(f"Deleting {count} (more) likes...")
    try:
        for status in favorites_page:
            print(status.text)
            resp = tweepy_api.destroy_favorite(status.id)
            time.sleep(0.1)
    except tweepy.error.TweepError:
        ''' tweepy is trying to delete a response to a non-existent tweet...
        pass for now and pick up next time around
        '''
        return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    ''' Delete all your tweets...
    '''
    USER = os.environ.get('TWITTER_USERNAME')
    # delete tweets and likes
    while True:
        try:
            count = 100 # default
            print(f"Deleting {count} (more) tweets...")
            delete_most_recent_tweets(count)
            delete_most_recent_likes(count)
            time.sleep(1)
        except tweepy.error.RateLimitError:
            print("Rate limit: sleeping for 1 minutes.")
            time.sleep(60)