Twitter: auto-delete old tweets

[ilf@…]

I'd like to only keep a certain threshold of Tweets in my Twitter account and auto-delete older ones. I thought about scripting this with cron, but BitlBee seems the better place for this, since after an initial setup it could combine sending a new Tweet with deleting an old one. What do you think about this?

[wilmer]

Sounds like obscure enough that you should write a script for it.

The "undo" command would let you do it, but you'd need the full IDs of those tweets. Surely it'd be easier to just use a Twitter API lib for some fancy scripting language and write this. Sounds like something you could do with 10 lines of code.

[ilf]

Did this here: ​https://github.com/ilf/twitter/blob/master/radiergummi.py

[lorddeath@…]

There's also the ​TweetDelete website that will delete old tweets for you, without requiring any local client/script :)

[ilf]

lorddeath: Yeah, but then you're giving a third entity access to stuff you want to delete.