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Delete all Twitter posts and faves without a developer key
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  • Request archive, wait for them to generate it, download it
  • Open Network Tab
  • Delete a tweet
  • Find a POST to DeleteTweet
  • "Copy as curl"
  • Save to file deltw.sh and mark as executable
  • Add -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' to the end
  • Replace the tweet ID (just the numbers) with '$1'

Run this:

unzip -p twitter-archive.zip data/tweet.js | tail -c+26 | jq '.[]|.tweet.id' -r | while IFS= read -r tweet_id; do deltw.sh "$tweet_id"; sleep 2.0; done

Make a similar script for unfavoriting tweets, and use this to unfavorite everything:

unzip -p twitter-archive.zip data/like.js | tail -c+25 | jq '.[]|.like.tweetId' -r | while IFS= read -r tweet_id; do unfav.sh "$tweet_id"; sleep 2.0; done
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