Last week I posted a bit of code for mass-deleting tweets using ColdFusion. Apparently “delete all tweets” is a fairly popular Google search term and tons of people wandered over to that entry. Unfortunately, my instructions were no good for most of those people. So…to be helpful…I made a quick app to do it for you.
TweetBomb will automatically delete all of the tweets in your Twitter account. Just enter your Twitter username and password in the form, and you’re good to go. I don’t keep any passwords for even a moment longer than it takes to delete all of your tweets. Read the about page on the TweetBomb site if you have any questions. If they aren’t answered there, feel free to contact me.
Hope this helps!
UPDATE: TweetBomb is apparently broken. Looks like I hosed up my queue management. I’m taking it offline until I can figure out what went wrong. Sorry for the trouble.
#1 by Robert Rawlins on August 8, 2009 - 12:05 PM
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Cool little app, I’ve been looking to do a bit of twitter integration with CF myself recently, seems to be a few little projects popping up for doing so.
Did you use a particular library for the integration? or did you just roll your own requests to the twitter API?
Rob
#2 by Scott on August 8, 2009 - 2:19 PM
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Rolled my own…it was partially as a learning project for myself.
#3 by Jake Munson on August 9, 2009 - 10:02 AM
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Since your other post got so much traffic (and will probably continue to get it), you should put an “Update:” there pointing to your new app. :)
#4 by Scott on August 9, 2009 - 10:13 PM
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Good idea. I’ll do that…as soon as I fix it. Looks like I broke things. :-P
#5 by Allen on August 9, 2009 - 5:07 PM
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Hey Scott. I agree with Jake. But when I Googled ‘mass delete tweets’ this post was right underneath your original. Either way, thanks for this. I’m going to try it right now.
#6 by Allen on August 11, 2009 - 6:34 AM
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When I first went in and tried it there were 5 people ahead of me. I went to bed, got up, and clicked refresh and there were 11 people ahead of me. When I click refresh am I taken to the back of the line? Does my computer actually have to be on for TweetBomb to work?
It’s down now for bug maintenance. Will I need to sign in again so the process can start over? Or will I still be in queue at the same place. Please let me know the answers to these questions. Thanks.
#7 by Scott on August 11, 2009 - 9:47 AM
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No, your computer doesn’t actually have to be on. I should have it back up and running later today. At that point, everyone who was already in the queue will be processed.
Sorry for the confusion.
#8 by Bombchell - in ATL on August 12, 2009 - 2:14 AM
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guess its not working yet :/
#9 by An on September 16, 2009 - 12:48 PM
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When will this work again?
#10 by mal on January 27, 2010 - 5:12 PM
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are we up and running yet?
i hope you decide to sell it i want to sell it for you ? we can both make a lot
#11 by mademoiselle on February 7, 2010 - 10:17 PM
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Its not working man..
#12 by Ni on March 3, 2010 - 6:13 PM
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Or just use a little bash script on Linux or Mac. No need to fill in your credentials on a website and risk your account being hijacked:
#!/bin/bash
read -p “Twitter user name? ” USER
read -p “Twitter password? ” PASS
UID=`curl -s -3 -u $USER:$PASS https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$USER.xml | grep -C1 \ | grep \ | head -1 | awk -F \> ‘{ print $2 }’ | awk -F \< '{ print $1 }'`
TWEETS=`curl -s -3 -u $USER:$PASS https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$USER.xml?count=1000 | grep \ | grep -v $UID | awk -F \> ‘{ print $2 }’ | awk -F \< '{ print $1 }'`
for i in $TWEETS
do
sleep 1
curl -u $USER:$PASS https://twitter.com/statuses/destroy.xml -d id=$i
sleep 1
done
#13 by TigerTimFarris on April 5, 2010 - 10:22 AM
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please delete all my tweets
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