How To Delete Very Old Replies to Replies

[thrillinphil]

Hey there, hope this is not bad Github etiquette but:

I noticed this script works really well using the twitter archive's tweets.js file except it was failing to delete about 200 old tweets. After some research, I realized it was skipping over my replies to myself in long threads. It would delete the original post but not my replies to myself.

During a boring work meeting, I decided to test something after comparing tweets that weren't deleted to ones that were.

I edited the tweets.js file and deleted every row that contained "in_reply_to". This originally threw an error and then I realized this left some dangling commas on the "lang : en" lines if there were no "extended_entries" after. So after some painstaking surgery to remove those, the file was accepted and about 80% of the missed tweets were then deleted. (see screenshot attached)

There's still some stragglers but they are so old I am struggling to even find them to compare. Anyway, just wanted to let you know my process in case anyone is still working on this script or wants to recreate my fix. I don't know if the script can be modified to ingest these replies-to-replies but if not, here's my solution for others. Thanks for the great script!

[fansxcel]

This was a big help. so my help back to you is,

Notepad++ has a plugin called "line filter" you can highlight any selected row of text and prune those lines from the over all notepad. So i'd highlight "Twitter.com" which would then output all of the links with "ID's" post, tweets, retweets, reply-to ids, etc... I then use that document to strip off the URL and now just have a total list of IDs. Then you can use this script option to "remove these tweet id's only"

hope this helps you cut the tedious task down!