Farewell to Elon

delete_all_tweets.js

const Twit = require('twit');
const fs = require('fs');
const { promisify } = require('util');
const ProgressBar = require('progress');
const asyncPool = require('tiny-async-pool');

const T = new Twit({
    consumer_key: 'HERE', 
    consumer_secret: 'HERE',
    access_token: 'HERE', 
    access_token_secret:'HERE'
});
  
const readFileAsync = promisify(fs.readFile);

const MAX_CONCURRENCY = 16;

async function asyncPoolAll(...args) {
    const results = [];
    for await (const result of asyncPool(...args)) {
        results.push(result);
    }
    return results;
}

async function deleteAllTweets() {
  // Read tweets from file
  let tweets = JSON.parse(await readFileAsync('tweet.json'));

  // Create progress bar
  const progressBar = new ProgressBar('Deleting [:bar] :percent :etas', {
    total: tweets.length,
    width: 40,
  });

  // Delete tweets concurrently
  const deletedTweets = await asyncPoolAll(MAX_CONCURRENCY, tweets, async (tweet) => {
    await T.post('statuses/destroy/:id', { id: tweet.tweet.id_str }).catch(e => console.error(e));
    progressBar.tick();
    return tweet.id_str;
  });

  console.log(`Deleted ${deletedTweets.length} tweets.`);
}

deleteAllTweets().catch(console.error);

npm install twit progress tiny-async-pool