TweetDelete

Python script to delete tweets within a date range.

Dependencies

• tweepy
• json
• glob
• dateutil

User Guide

1. Download your Twitter archive

• Install dependencies (usually only tweepy) e.g.pip install tweepy
• Make a developer account at dev.twitter.com
• Create a new twitter app
• Set app permissions to read and write
• Generate access token for your account
• Set API and access key-secret pairs in delete_tweets.py i.e. api_key, api_secret, access_token and access_token_secret
• Set file_dir to point to directory containing JSON formatted tweets
• Set date range by adjustingdate_min and date_max
• Run using python delete_tweets.py