Jeremy Felt

DELETE requests to Twitter’s API are rate-limited to 50 per 15 minutes—one every 18 seconds. I’ve set a 20 second interval and will now stare at this screen for the next 4.6 days.

A screenshot of a terminal with a command running to delete all of my tweets. There are 20558 tweets to delete and the estimated time is 6077 minutes.

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