A community group I'm involved with is finally ready to leave Twitter after the latest fuckery.

A community group I'm involved with is finally ready to leave Twitter after the latest fuckery. They want to:

1 - export all data (photos etc)
2 - delete all tweets
3 - leave a placeholder so no one can squat the name with a link to their website and new Bluesky account (I know, I've tried to lure them over here, believe me)

Does anyone have a link to a simple guide for the not particularly tech savvy to doing all of the above please?

#AskFedi

@afewbugs Safely bulk delete tweets for free: https://redact.dev/services/twitter

@nihalxkumar @afewbugs Redact isn't free anymore.

@luca @nihalxkumar @afewbugs yeah I looked at all these.
The only free one I found needs someone at least vaguely savvy to open the right box to paste some code into and locate files to use for the deletion.

Unfortunately X also takes ages to send you your data, if your request even works.

https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer

As it's a brute force method, it can also get the account banned. If that matters.
#birdsite #deleteTwitter

@noodlemaz @nihalxkumar @afewbugs TweetXer has a slow delete function in the advanced options, if the export is broken.

@luca @nihalxkumar @afewbugs oh there's this too
I might try that for my dregs.
https://infosec.exchange/@cyd/113862160714259446

@luca @nihalxkumar @afewbugs having read, unfortunately it still requires an up-to-date archive.

Archive request stopped working in my account, maybe bc it's dormant and private I don't know.
I tried in the wat TweetXer suggested, via some customer support page.
Hasn't worked.
Sigh

(the reason I don't trash it is per that article - I don't want to be impersonated or leave that possibility, I have a decades-old handle for all Internet things.)

@noodlemaz @nihalxkumar @afewbugs Have you tried slow delete in TweetXer?

Another option is to change the handle of the account, create a new account with the old handle and delete the renamed account.