TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age • Hacker News Board

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by written » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

anubisresources wrote: post #20

written wrote: post #15

The way I use Twitter is to download tweets to a local database, including images/videos/unshortened URL and then I view the data in my own UI from local DB. It circumvents the tweet/account removals done by users or Twitter. Also I can do any kind of search/data processing I want. I guess I'm not alone. You can't hide your data once they are made public. It's interesting what is possible once you start treating web…

How many petabytes does something like this take up?

I download profiles I'm interested in of course. Not everything. 70 profiles with 75000 tweets take 5GB for JSON + images + linked pages content + 60GB for videos.

I didn't optimize for space at all, twitter's json is quite wasteful.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by written » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:28 PM UTC

llao wrote: post #43

anubisresources wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many petabytes does something like this take up?

The internet says there are about 500 million tweets per day. If we assume 500 bytes for storing each, this would be 250 Gigabytes per day.

Average tweet JSON object size is 5300B.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by minch » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:28 PM UTC

Here's a similar tool that I built for fun: http://www.deletehub.com/

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by xref » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

back when I still tweeted at least two users blocked me since after a few weeks my tweets would delete and so their replies were neutered as well.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by troutwine » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #28

This seems like a good way to make twitter even more toxic than it already is. If you're afraid of your tweets coming back to haunt you later on, maybe you shouldn't be tweeting those things.

I dunno. I delete my tweets after a year. I do it not because I'm afraid of anything coming back to bite me but because I'm opposed to being perpetually archived. Some day I will die. I'd prefer not to leave any carelessly produced ghosts of myself behind, if I can help it.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by swlkr » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

I use this or something like it, I’ve been on twitter since 2010 I think and I’ve changed a lot since then. No point in keeping tweets around longer than they need to be

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by sebazzz » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:50 PM UTC

I would like this to exist for Facebook, so I can clear everything except the current year.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by vosper » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:52 PM UTC

Puer wrote: post #30

For people who use Reddit, deleted comments only remove the username and not the content, making it trivial to trace back the original poster. If you delete posts/comments regularly use Shreddit which overwrites the content before deleting it making this trace back much more difficult. https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

It should be noted that deleting reddit posts is similar to Twitter in that multiple third-party services will probably retain the deleted content forever.

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by wyclif » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 6:55 PM UTC

Why doesn't Twitter have this feature built-in?

Re: TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 7:11 PM UTC

Puer wrote: post #30

For people who use Reddit, deleted comments only remove the username and not the content, making it trivial to trace back the original poster. If you delete posts/comments regularly use Shreddit which overwrites the content before deleting it making this trace back much more difficult. https://github.com/x89/Shreddit

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