[__bee]

You don't need all of this. All what you need is to request your data from twitter (Your Tweet archive > https://twitter.com/settings/account). Iterate through the csv file and use tweet_id to unlike, remove or do what you want through their Twitter API.

Source: I have done it before, and it took less time/work than what you have stated.

[loeber]

When you say "all of this", that's only true for the browser-scraping part. You still need to use the API's CreateFavorite and DestroyFavorite calls on old tweets.

(As discussed, purely calling DestroyFavorite won't work on Tweets outside the 3200-tweet-capped API-accessible data store).

[celdon25]

It seemed obvious to me that this is what he meant.

[kelnos]

With the exception of the data retrieval method, the OP tried this, and suggests that simply having the tweet_id is not enough, if the tweet it corresponds to happens to be old enough (or something) to not be accessible by the API.

[rinze]

I did exactly this a while ago (before deleting my Twitter account for good) and with the id extracted from the downloaded CSV I could delete everything. Perhaps they've changed policies recently.

I wrote a couple of Python scripts to keep your timeline tidy (delete everything from the beginning, then trim and leave only the last N): https://github.com/rinze/obliterate_tweets

[__bee]

Twitter API allows you to get 3200 old tweets. That's not enough to delete all the tweets. If you request your data, you can get all your tweets.

>> tweet_id is not enough

tweet_id is enough to do any interaction if you give read/write to the key that you are using in your Twitter API. I deleted my tweets (back to 2012).

[davidu]

but it doesn't unlike. You have to re-like/un-like it now, too, beyond 3200.