Twitter Purge

This program deletes all tweets from a users twitter account.

Requirements

  • Golang 1.19.4+ (if building from source)
  • Twitter API credentials (see below)

Configuration

Get API Credentials

  • Go to https://developer.twitter.com/
  • Go to 'developer portal'
  • Add app
  • Choose 'production'
  • Fill in details like 'account maintenance' or something like that
  • Fetch your API and consumer keys

Copy & update config

Copy .env_example file to .env and update with the relevant API details from the previous step.

Build from source

Fetch the dependencies

go mod tidy

Run the purge (you may need to run this multiple times)

go build twitterpurge.go