Comments on: Dear Twitter- I’ll Give Back SO Much Space

By: Jordan Pearce

Jordan Pearce — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:02:28 +0000

Cool while your at it please inform the Twitter peeps to get a handle on viewing mutual followers. People get all crazy over that. Thanks Chris. ;)

http://twitter.com/jpearce01

By: Damon Cortesi

Damon Cortesi — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:38:05 +0000

For those of you they may have tried to use my DM Deleter (http://dcortesi.com/tools/dm_deleter/), I just updated it today to make it compatible with some changes Twitter recently made.

It’s a brute-force way of doing it, but it does allow you to clear out your DM’s at the expense of Twitter’s databases…

By: Lucretia Pruitt

Lucretia Pruitt — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:10:13 +0000

Now I feel like a really bad friend for not having previously directed you to @dacort’s amazing DM whacker.

http://dcortesi.com/tools/dm-deleter/

I can’t live w/o it. I’ve used it for awhile now. Every time my DMs get above 1k I use it. I mean, after all, I have the important ones archived in my GMail. :)

Sorry I didn’t tell you sooner!!

p.s. @dacort does the most useful scripts!! :)

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:01:54 +0000

I guess I fail to see the real problem here. I’ve never had to delete a single DM. Granted, I only have a couple of hundred, but I don’t need to delete any. They’re just “there,” and to me that’s the nature of the modern Internet: not needing to delete anything.

I agree with those who have complained about the ever-vanishing trash can; I would like to see it around all of the time for those instances of typos or accidentally hitting enter instead of the shift key.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:00:29 +0000

By: Scott Mahler

Scott Mahler — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:06:42 +0000

Wow, you are soooooo right. And how do you delet the @ messages once you’ve read them?

By: Scrabbler99

Scrabbler99 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:52:03 +0000

Someone crafty will turn this to our advantage, and utilize this as a free backup storage medium, ala gmail.

By: Paul Valach

Paul Valach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:15:15 +0000

Agreed… along with Favorites. I tend to use Favorites as a bookmark these days, to capture a tweet so that I can get a URL when no on my machine. Once I get to my computer, I bookmark and then delete…but often it is a few at a time or on a “hot topic” period not always done, and they stack up.

Also what’s with the 2000 limit. Please, sometimes you find a few groups and things grow. Deleting 20 to make room for new ones is a royal pain, groups, sections all of this should be easier to do.

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:24:29 +0000

I thought I was the only one wondering why they didn’t have this option. Thanks for posting this Chris. Hopefully something gets done about it :)

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