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January 4, 2012 • 10:05 am 0

TwitWipe – delete all your tweets at once

TwitWipe gives you that fresh start you always wanted to have by removing all, yes all, of your tweets. There is no archiving with this tool, the writer really means that it simply deletes everything and gives you that fresh start. Now I did find a conflict in one of the description paragraphs below:

Why not just delete the account and create a new one?

Doing so will create a new user id (the numeric id). It’s going to be a separate, new account. All your followers and followees and flurries will be gone! That’s why you should use TwitWipe, because it lets you keep all your followers, favorites and the people you’re following. If you’ve signed into any apps with your account, TwitWiping will keep all that intact. It’s like that memory eraser pen from M.I.B.!

As you see, in one line it says followers and such are gone too. The next sentence says they stay. So you have been warned if you lose followers.

It will take some time to run depending on how many tweets you have, so patience is a key in using the tool. They recommend you leave it running overnight as necessary. The site uses oAuth so no password information is stored and they joke that there should be no big deal, it is deleting everything anyway.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, Archiving, delete, remove, reset, wipe

November 29, 2010 • 10:32 am 0

DMCleaner – manage your direct messages

DMCleaner presents itself as a tool to maage your direct messages better than Twitter itself. Authentication is done via oAuth and that is the only choice on the homepage.

Once authenticated it pulls all your direct messages and gives you the count of received and sent. You are then presented with a list of choices as links:

Delete all DM’s
Delete all sent DM’s
Delete all received DM’s
Delete only DM’s with blocked users
Delete only DM’s with specific users
Delete only DM’s based on a specific date
Delete only DM’s containing specific words

Quite the choices. The first three are very easy to understand. I clicked the specific date for a test and a quick box appears asking you to specify the date via mm/dd/yyyy format, instead of a pop-up calendar. It works fine for the purpose.

I wish I could see all of the DM’s in a side window, pop-up or something to verify what I was doing. But that isn’t the case/

A great, quick tool that does just what it says in mass quantity. Just be sure you verify in the real Twitter UI before making any choice.

You could also look at Backupify as an option to backing up tweets before deleting them.

Filed under: Add-on Tools, delete, direct message, dm