Twelete

Delete your tweets older than 4 weeks. Tweets are temporary messages, and thus should be deleted.

Note: I no longer use Twitter but the code should still work.

Setup

1. Install using poetry: poetry install. (I created PyShed if you don't have poetry and python setup).
2. Create a .env file with the following contents. Fill in the values after creating a Twitter App:

twelete_consumer_key=""
twelete_consumer_secret=""
twelete_access_key=""
twelete_access_secret=""

3. Run poetry run python ./twelete.py. It will dry-run, displaying deletable tweets over 28 days old.

Dry run. To delete: add "twelete_dry_run=0" to .env
Authenticated as: svandragt
Deleting 1284072013640982529: [2020-07-17 10:26:39] Just gave a sprint demo where I had Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen joined the site as senior editor and author re… https://t.co/SvrEK99eum

4. Add the following items to the .env file to tweak the cutoff date and to enable deletion:

twelete_days_to_keep=28
twelete_dry_run=0

Run periodically.

Run crontab -e and add the following line:

# Run at 5:15am every day
15 5 * * * cd $HOME/src/twelete && $HOME/.poetry/bin/poetry run python ./twelete.py | tee -a /var/log/twelete.log

Make sure the log file exists and is writable:

sudo touch /var/log/twelete.log
sudo chown $(whoami):adm /var/log/twelete.log