source: de.wigbels.ruby/rmallyourtweets/rmallyourtweets.rb

Last change on this file was 85544a9, checked in by njw <njw@…>, 15 years ago

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[b3b0c9c]1#! /usr/bin/env ruby
2
[9ea979a]3# Norbert Wigbels
4#
[b3b0c9c]5# remove all your tweets;
6# basically, if you want to keep your account
7#
8# adapted from http://blog.johnwyles.com/articles/2009/01/06/destroying-deleting-and-erasing-old-twitter-tweets/
[fc1853a]9
10require 'rubygems'
11require 'activesupport'
12require 'twitter'
13
14
[b3b0c9c]15# auth yourself
[85544a9]16httpauth = Twitter::HTTPAuth.new('YOUR_USERNAME', 'PASSWORD')
[fc1853a]17twitter = Twitter::Base.new(httpauth)
18
[b3b0c9c]19# go for complete deletion
[85544a9]20chunk = twitter.user_timeline
21while chunk do
22  chunk.each do |s|
23    twitter.status_destroy(s.id)
24    puts "Deleted tweet: [#{s.id}] \"#{s.text}\" (#{s.created_at})"
25  end
26  chunk = twitter.user_timeline
[fc1853a]27end
[c01b5ba]28
29# finally
[85544a9]30twitter.update("Hey! Ho! Let's Go #rmallyourtweets http://foobla.wigbels.de/tag/delete-all-tweets/")
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