A while ago, I created a very simple set of Python scripts to accomplish precisely this, if you'd rather use something you actually control. Here: https://github.com/rinze/obliterate_tweets
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#12Ive created some similar host-yourself FOSS options for Reddit and Disqus:
https://github.com/josteink/web-privacy-reddit
https://github.com/josteink/web-privacy-disqus
I honestly don’t see why I should have to trust a SaaS to maintain privacy data on another SaaS. That’s not solving the problem, but just moving the goalpost.
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#13An item on my todo list for years has been to create a project that wipes your history on various social media services.
I haven't used TweetDelete yet, but a quick search shows there's many paid, free, and open source options available. This one stands out as being better since you can inspect the code and it also deletes favourites and direct messages: http://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/
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#14the twitter community needs a service that deletes regrettable tweets, and anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare
> anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare
That category includes everything. Your post about how you're crushing some pancakes today could be considered a celliac-phobic statement punishable under the Freedom from Oppression and Tyrannical Online Speech Act passed in 2040.
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#15The 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 services as a data source. Sometimes there is much more exposed than is visible or easily consumable on the page and you can filter/search/consume the way you want without all the clutter/feeding algorithms around the original page/service.
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#16the twitter community needs a service that deletes regrettable tweets, and anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare
Unless someone screenshots your tweets. Either you have to create a private account and be really restrictive about who you add or what you say.
Screenshots can be faked, a service like archive.is is much more resilient.
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#17the twitter community needs a service that deletes regrettable tweets, and anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare
> anything that might one day cause a public relations nightmare That category includes everything. Your post about how you're crushing some pancakes today could be considered a celliac-phobic statement punishable under the Freedom from Oppression and Tyrannical Online Speech Act passed in 2040.
Well, I'm not convinced that it includes everything, but I do agree with your general idea that it can be really hard to figure out what will be considered offensive in the future. That's why a service like this could be valuable.
It would even have value if it could just eliminate, say, 50% of future PR nightmares.
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#18Services such as this cannot delete a tweet from other services or people who archive them or even just take a screenshot. You still have to assume that anything to post on Twitter will be public forever.
I never trust any screenshot. Way too easy to fake.
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#19An item on my todo list for years has been to create a project that wipes your history on various social media services. I haven't used TweetDelete yet, but a quick search shows there's many paid, free, and open source options available. This one stands out as being better since you can inspect the code and it also deletes favourites and direct messages: http://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser/
And close to deleting 3 billion tweets so far.
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#20The 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?