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This script will delete all of the tweets in a specified account.
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| # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
| """ | |
| @requirements: python-twitter (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/) and simplejson (http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/) | |
| @author: Dave Jeffery | |
| This script will delete all of the tweets in the specified account. | |
| You may need to hit the "more" button on the bottom of your twitter profile | |
| page every now and then as the script runs, this is due to a bug in twitter. | |
| """ | |
| import twitter, urllib2 | |
| def delete_tweet(api, status_id): | |
| """Deletes tweet with matching status_id""" | |
| api.DestroyStatus(status_id) | |
| print "Deleted:", status_id | |
| def batch_delete(username, password, batch_size=200): | |
| """Fetches tweets in batches and calls delete_tweet on each one""" | |
| api = twitter.Api(username, password) | |
| api.SetCache(None) # Caching needs to be turned off | |
| print "Deleting all tweets from", username | |
| batch = 0 | |
| while True: # Rinse and repeat | |
| tweets = api.GetUserTimeline(username, count=batch_size) # Get batch of tweets | |
| if tweets: | |
| batch += 1 | |
| print "\nProcessing batch", batch | |
| for tweet in tweets: | |
| delete_tweet(api, tweet.id) | |
| elif not tweets: | |
| print "\nNo tweets left... Done" | |
| break | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| batch_delete(username="user", password="pass") |
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