Node script to generate a cleaned, sorted list of your tweets. Drop this into the base directory of your unzipped Twitter archive & run from there.

sort_tweets.js

const fs = require('fs');

const TWEETS_PATH = './data/tweets.js';

// Read and parse tweet data.
function readAndParseTweets(filePath) {
    const rawData = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8');
    const jsonData = rawData.replace('window.YTD.tweets.part0 = ', '');
    return JSON.parse(jsonData);
}

// Remove unnecessary fields from tweet data.
function cleanTweetData(tweets) {
    return tweets.map(tweet => {
        let cleanedTweet = { ...tweet.tweet };

        // Remove unnecessary top-level fields.
        const fieldsToRemove = [
            'display_text_range', 'edit_info', 'favorited', 'id_str', 'lang', 'possibly_sensitive', 'retweeted', 'source', 'truncated', 'edit_info'
        ];

        fieldsToRemove.forEach(field => delete cleanedTweet[field]);

        // Clean media objects. Wrapping in a try so that we can handle tweets without media.
        try {
          if (cleanedTweet.extended_entities) {
            cleanedTweet.extended_entities.media.forEach(removeMediaCruft);
          }
    
        if (cleanedTweet.entities) {
            cleanedTweet.entities.media.forEach(removeMediaCruft);
          }
        } catch (e) {}

        // Remove any 'indices' property. This is only used for display purposes.
        removeIndices(cleanedTweet);

        return cleanedTweet;
    });
}

// Remove unnecessary fields from media object.
function removeMediaCruft(media) {
    delete media.sizes;
}

// Recursively remove 'indices' properties from an object.
function removeIndices(obj) {
    for (let prop in obj) {
        if (prop === 'indices') {
            delete obj[prop];
        } else if (typeof obj[prop] === 'object') {
            removeIndices(obj[prop]);
        }
    }
}

// Sort an array of objects by a specific key in descending order.
function sortByKeyDesc(array, key) {
    return array.sort((a, b) => b[key] - a[key]);
}

// Main execution
const rawTweets = readAndParseTweets(TWEETS_PATH);
const cleanedTweets = cleanTweetData(rawTweets);
const sortedTweets = sortByKeyDesc(cleanedTweets, "favorite_count"); // You can also use `retweet_count`

// Write sorted tweets to a JSON file.
fs.writeFileSync('tweets.json', JSON.stringify(sortedTweets, null, 2));