DELETE /2/tweets/ rate limit improvement/multi delete option #24

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1. Vroomfrondal commented on Dec 13, 2022

   

   Vroomfrondal

   on Dec 13, 2022

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   @adacable I recently ran into this exact issue when building out a script to mass delete tweets.

   While I agree, this limit is so low you can't really use it - I was able to get around this by requesting "elevated access" on my app inside the twitter developer dashboard. It was free and I was granted access instantly.

   Once you get elevated access, you can use the twitter-v1 delete-tweet endpoint

   A couple of side notes: don't forget to:

   1. install twitter v1 (for me this was npm install twitter)
   2. Here is an example of calling that endpoint with a tweet ID:
      v1Client.post(`statuses/destroy/${tweetID}.json`, () => {}
   3. I didn't have to refactor everything to v1, just the function using the delete endpoint
2. adacable commented on Jan 11, 2023

   

   adacable

   on Jan 11, 2023

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   Yep, it's not solving the actual problem though- this is an issue with the v2 api, requesting an adjustment to it- "use the V1 api" is not a solution. OTOH, I suspect the people monitoring this repository have been fired, and no-one knows it exists so.