{"id":5792,"date":"2017-11-02T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2023-08-02T20:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:07:31","slug":"twitter-bulk-delete-old-tweets-search-specific-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/twitter-bulk-delete-old-tweets-search-specific-words\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Bulk Erase Old Tweets or Tweets Containing Specific Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, you may have to clear your old posts on Twitter to remove any obsolete information. Business houses, for instance, may need to clear their old tweets to remove any outdated product information or promotion campaigns. This is also necessary if you had posted some undesirable series of tweets earlier, or want to erase tweets that contain a certain word or phrase.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With thousands of tweets on your Twitter timeline, manually deleting tweets that were posted on a certain month is a tedious job using Twitter&#8217;s interface. Although Twitter lacks the feature to mass erase your tweets, it makes available the platform for third-party developers to create apps that can search or delete tweets programmatically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter Archive Eraser<\/strong> is a 100% Free &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/martani\/Twitter-Archive-Eraser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Source tool<\/a> that can erase thousands of your tweets, DMs and Favorites (&#8220;Likes&#8221;) automatically. Twitter Archive Eraser is completely free and has no trial period or limits unlike other tweet erasers on the web. The source code is available on GitHub. The app has no access to your password. All you need to is provide the app permissions to access your Twitter account.<\/p>\n<h2>Bulk erase old tweets or tweets containing specific words<\/h2>\n<p>First, request your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter archive<\/a> via Twitter Settings. And download your tweet archive (.zip) from your mail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tweet-download-archive.png\" alt=\"twitter request archive download email\" width=\"587\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Download\u00a0Martani&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/martani.github.io\/Twitter-Archive-Eraser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Twitter Archive Eraser<\/a>\u00a0and run it. Next, authenticate or authorize Martani Archive Eraser to use your account. As seen from the authorization window, this application will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read Tweets from your timeline.<\/li>\n<li>See who you follow, and follow new people.<\/li>\n<li>Update your profile.<\/li>\n<li>Post Tweets for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Will <strong>not<\/strong> be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access your direct messages*<\/li>\n<li>See your email address.<\/li>\n<li>See your Twitter password.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter-authenticate2.png\" alt=\"twitter app authorization window\" width=\"700\" height=\"633\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>*The app can access your direct messages only if you explicitly enable the option &#8220;I want to delete Direct Messages (DMs)&#8221; in the initial screen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The URL on the address bar is\u00a0a secure (https) Twitter website asking you to authorize the application to use your account.\u00a0If you\u2019re not already logged in to your account, you will need to log in. As a general precautionary measure, when connecting any third-party app to your Twitter account, <strong>be sure<\/strong> check that the authorization page is secure by verifying if the URL starts with https:\/\/twitter.com. Only if the page is secure and the URL is twitter.com, enter your username and password and click Sign In to connect the application.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter-authenticate.png\" alt=\"twitter archive eraser sign in\" width=\"846\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After authorizing, you&#8217;ll be provided a PIN which you&#8217;ll need to enter in Twitter Archive Eraser&#8217;s Sign in screen next screen. Next, choose which item (Tweet, DMs, Likes or Favorites) you want to delete.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter-authenticate3.png\" alt=\"twitter archive eraser bulk delete tweets dm and likes\" width=\"846\" height=\"414\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Load your twitter archive which you downloaded in step 1. Click Next.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tweet-delete-months.png\" alt=\"twitter archive eraser bulk delete tweets dm and likes\" width=\"752\" height=\"608\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select all or specific months from the list and click Next. I&#8217;ve chosen to delete tweets made before than October 2017. In the next screen, you can filter items accordingly. You can search for a specific word or phrase and only delete those entries. To delete all the entries in the chosen month(s), clear your search by clicking Show all \/ Reset Filter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/tweet-delete-bulk-1.png\" alt=\"twitter archive eraser bulk delete tweets dm and likes\" width=\"700\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your old tweets are being cleared right now and believe me, it is a super fast operation. The developer claims that the tool can erase up to 2000 tweets per minute, using up to 32 concurrent threads simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Once the job is done, open your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/settings\/applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter App Settings<\/a> and revoke access to the program.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter-app-permissions.png\" alt=\"twitter application access permissions \" width=\"526\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unlike other tweet eraser web apps, Twitter Archive Eraser (at least the version which I tested) doesn&#8217;t automatically post (unwanted messages such as &#8220;I&#8217;ve deleted my old tweets using &lt;program&gt;&#8221;) on your Twitter timeline without asking you first, although the app has permissions to post tweets on your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time, you may have to clear your old posts on Twitter to remove any obsolete information. Business houses, for instance, may need to clear their old tweets to remove any outdated product information or promotion campaigns. This is also necessary if you had posted some undesirable series of tweets earlier, or want &#8230; <a title=\"How to Bulk Erase Old Tweets or Tweets Containing Specific Words\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/twitter-bulk-delete-old-tweets-search-specific-words\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Bulk Erase Old Tweets or Tweets Containing Specific Words\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[609],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-utilities","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10651,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/clean-install-windows-10-using-reset-this-pc-option\/","url_meta":{"origin":5792,"position":0},"title":"How to Use &#8220;Reset this PC&#8221; to Clean Install Windows 10 or 11","author":"Ramesh","date":"August 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Windows 10 and 11 have multiple recovery options to revert or roll back to an old configuration. 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