A community group I'm involved with is finally ready to leave Twitter after the latest fuckery. They want to:
1 - export all data (photos etc)
2 - delete all tweets
3 - leave a placeholder so no one can squat the name with a link to their website and new Bluesky account (I know, I've tried to lure them over here, believe me)
Does anyone have a link to a simple guide for the not particularly tech savvy to doing all of the above please?
Or have you done it yourself and can you recommend tools to quickly and safely bulk delete?
Many thanks
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@luca @nihalxkumar @afewbugs yeah I looked at all these.
The only free one I found needs someone at least vaguely savvy to open the right box to paste some code into and locate files to use for the deletion.
Unfortunately X also takes ages to send you your data, if your request even works.
https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer
As it's a brute force method, it can also get the account banned. If that matters.
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Today might be a good day to delete all your tweets and never use X again https://cyd.social/want-to-quit-x-in-2025-heres-how-to-do-it-the-right-way-with-cyd/
@luca @nihalxkumar @afewbugs having read, unfortunately it still requires an up-to-date archive.
Archive request stopped working in my account, maybe bc it's dormant and private I don't know.
I tried in the wat TweetXer suggested, via some customer support page.
Hasn't worked.
Sigh
(the reason I don't trash it is per that article - I don't want to be impersonated or leave that possibility, I have a decades-old handle for all Internet things.)
@noodlemaz @nihalxkumar @afewbugs Have you tried slow delete in TweetXer?
Another option is to change the handle of the account, create a new account with the old handle and delete the renamed account.
@afewbugs @noodlemaz @nihalxkumar When the account is deleted around 30 days (amount of time it takes until it is actually deleted after starting the process).
Within seconds, when the handle is changed. I last did that about three years ago. I don't know if it's still works like that. And there is always the risk, that it doesn't work.
@nihalxkumar @afewbugs It's free for 2k Tweets. If you want to use file based deletion, you have to pay. https://scottandrew.com/blog/2024/10/former-twitter-user.html
Running it multiple times may be viable for 10k Tweets or less.
@afewbugs I used Cyd which created a local archive (on my laptop) of all of my tweets and deleted them.
I paid for it, as I wanted to be able to filter which tweets I deleted and do it in stages, but there's a free version which creates an archive and deletes all of the tweets.
It wasn't perfect and took DAYS but it pretty much did what I needed so it's probably worth a look. I have no experience of alternatives, sorry!
I updated my twitter profile to say I was now on Mastodon.
@afewbugs @Aubrieta Export can be done through the settings (though there are reports that it is currently broken).
I wrote a script to bulk delete: https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer (step by step video tutorial included)
@afewbugs I still had my "dark" account there which I just deleted (just never got around it, did not use it anymore for years).
1. get your data: you log in, go to https://x.com/settings/your_twitter_data/request_data and request your data. This will take 24 hours, and then you only have 10 days to download it.
2: delete all tweets with this scrips : https://x.com/settings/your_twitter_data/request_data (you need your data export for this to work!)
3: just leave it? maybe change the password to something random and don't write it down.
@afewbugs Hi Jules, happy to hear that! Boosting for visibility. Wish the best for your group!
For 1., here's a wikiHow page that may help: https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Your-Twitter-Archive-File.
For 2. and 3., I found a Reddit post that may help: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1nju03x/whats_the_safest_way_to_bulk_tweet_delete_without/
My experience is that after downloading my data from Twitter, I haven't really used it for anything 🤔 .
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