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?
Redact allows you to mass delete your tweets / posts, reposts, likes, quotes, DMs, & replies! Redact comes with a slew of filtering options, this allows you to quickly find & remove the most problematic Twitter / X content. Search by username, keywords, & dates. App includes mass unfollower and mass unblocker.
@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.
#birdsite #deleteTwitter
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.
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