After nearly two decades on the Twitter platform newly renamed as X, I’ve decided to delete my 25k tweets, & step away.  Posted my last tweet for the foreseeable future and deleted all my 25,000+ tweets so they were not abused  or used for AI training without my permission. It was bittersweet and I had some good times over the past years on Twitter and 15k followers and made many new friends in real life off of Twitter even got to attend a special final launch of the space shuttle with Twitter and Nasa years ago. It used to be a digital town square of all voices and a place to find the latest news without some voices you don't follow being pushed into your feeds. The signal-to-noise ratio has shifted dramatically—spam, bots, and amplified hate have taken over. Twitter isn’t what it once was, and I don’t find benefit any longer.

Currently focusing on LinkedIn, and @shaanhurley on Threads, Instagram, and Bluesky for any social. I can still log into Twitter if I want, but just not actively engaging in there.



But how did I remove my posts? I used code tweetXer (https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer/) pasted to the browser console and the exported Twitter user data file provided from Twitter after making the request it took about 24 hours for the download notification. It took  two times probably due to a limiting api of Twitter, but they are all gone but one final post.

Console view in browser with the tweetXer code


Select your tweet-headers.js from the downloaded Twitter user file and Go.


Cleaned and gone.