Delete every tweet contained in your tweet archive. Forked from https://gist.github.com/robinsloan/3688616

delete-tweets-from-twitarchive.rb

require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"

# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = ""
TWITARCHIVE_TWEETS = "/eg/path/to/your/twitarchive/data/js/tweets"

# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = ""
CONSUMER_SECRET = ""
OAUTH_TOKEN = ""
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = ""

# any special favorites?
IDS_TO_SAVE_FOREVER = [699343110787198976] # my panini tweet

### you shouldn't have to change anything below this line ###

TWEETS_PER_REQUEST = 200

### A METHOD ###

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

### WE BEGIN ###

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

puts ""
puts "What's that sound...?"
puts ""

Dir.glob("#{TWITARCHIVE_TWEETS}/*.js") do |filepath|

tweets = []
got_tweets = true
oldest_tweet_id = 9000000000000000000

puts "Parsing #{filepath}…"
contents = File.read(filepath)
contents.gsub!(/Grailbird.data.tweets_20\d\d_\d\d = /, '')
tweets=JSON.parse(contents)

puts ""
puts "Got #{tweets.length} tweets total"
puts ""

deleted_tweets = 0
ignored_tweets = 0

tweets.each do |tweet|
  begin
    if IDS_TO_SAVE_FOREVER.include?(tweet['id']) then
      puts "Ignored a tweet that is to be saved forever."
      ignored_tweets += 1
    else
      puts "Deleting tweet #{tweet['id']}"
      delete_from_twitter(tweet, client)
      deleted_tweets += 1
    end

    puts tweet['text']
    puts "--------------------"

  rescue Twitter::Error::TooManyRequests => e
    puts "Hit the rate limit; pausing for #{e.rate_limit.reset_in} seconds"
    sleep e.rate_limit.reset_in
    retry

  rescue StandardError => e
    puts e.inspect
    exit
  end
end

puts "--------------- DONE! -----------------------"
puts "File #{filepath}"
puts "Deleted #{deleted_tweets} tweets."
puts "Ignored #{ignored_tweets} tweets."
puts "---------------------------------------------"

end