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A few months ago someone posted a tool that cleared this and old tweets as well, but I can’t remember the name.

I wish there was a tool that regularly nuked my Facebook history as well, from comments in random groups to likes across the site. I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago.




> I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago.

This attitude confuses me. Looking back at things I wrote ten years ago makes me think "huh, I used to believe X and now I don't, why did I change my mind?" and "X used to be really important to me and now it's not, what happened?". If I'm writing something today I'll often look back at what I've said about it previously (and I like having most of what I've written as blog posts so that's easy).

Then there's the benefit to others: being able to look back at what people were thinking in the past is super useful for understanding how the world has changed, and textual comments are great for that.


I’ll be honest. I used to preserve everything and I also was surprised at a friend who’d reset his Twitter profile every so often.

But it feels like everything can cause outrage these days and I don’t want to know what will look bad in 10 more years, out of context.

I’ll take out the archive and keep the memory on my computer, not online, for everyone to see.


"Twitter Archive Deleter" is a Glitch app that walks you through deleting your whole Twitter archive without having to give access to a 3rd party service. I haven't used it myself.

https://twitter-archive-deleter.glitch.me/


Perfect. Twitter have been ignoring my request to delete my data.




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