Cardigan

Find and delete old (embarrassing) tweets

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Find and delete old (embarrassing) tweets

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Cardigan is a simple web app that scans your Twitter history to identify tweets you might want to delete.

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Ah, was wondering why it's called Cardigan, then realized, you use a cardigan normally to cover up ;)

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

@amstb1 I never even thought of that! It's actually due to reasons explained in the FAQ: https://www.gocardigan.com/faq/#... But I like yours too, and will start using that from now on.

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10yr ago

Free Privacy Audit

The big warning about "download an archive of your tweets before proceeding" was enough to scare the crap out of me and keep me from signing up.

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

@arlogilbert Well, I'm confident that it won't delete tweets you didn't intend, but I can't 100% guarantee that, obviously. And in any case, the warning is more so that people don't regret the deletions, because they can't be undone!

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

@arlogilbert But sorry to scare the crap out of you! My intention was to make sure people understand that this can (if they wish) nuke their entire timeline, and there's no going back.

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10yr ago

Kayako

overheard in the @Kayako office: "this is super. all i've learnt from facebook "on this day" is that i was a dick"

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

@jmedwards @kayako Ha! I would like to have Cardigan work for Facebook posts too, maybe in the future...

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

Many people have asked, so I'll mention this here directly: Unfortunately the Twitter API has a limit of up to 3200 tweets, and you can't fetch timelines past that point. It does appear that if you delete tweets to "make room" under that limit and then wait for some amount of time (I have yet to figure out how much) then you can see further back. So it may make sense to delete from your first 3200 tweets, then wait a day, then try again for the earlier tweets. And so on. I'm working on a way around this limitation, and will post here when I have one.

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10yr ago

There are a number of options in this space, but if you are able to beat the 3200 tweet limit you will be king. The limitation is really aggravating because I assume most of the tweets people would want to delete are well beyond that limit.

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10yr ago

Great idea. I agree with what others have said. Figure out a way to bypass (or uniquely work with) the 3200 tweet limit and that will be a differentiator. Nice job!

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10yr ago

Could someone do this for YouTube!!! I need it

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

@michaelabehsera Interesting! Next on my list of sites to support was Facebook, I never thought of YouTube, but that's actually a good idea! Will look into it.

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10yr ago

@benjy there are old videos of mine posted from accounts I have no access to that I would love to remove 😟 hit me up if u find a way I'll definitely pay for the service.

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10yr ago

Cardigan

Maker

@michaelabehsera Unfortunately I definitely won't be able to do anything with accounts you don't have access to. A service like Cardigan can only act on an account holders behalf, not delete arbitrary things...

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10yr ago

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