一种方法可能如下所示:
import twitter
api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='consumer_key',
consumer_secret='consumer_secret',
access_token_key='access_token',
access_token_secret='access_token_secret')
# get user data from credentials
user_data = api.VerifyCredentials()
user_id = long(user_data.id)
max_status_id = 0
# repeat until all tweets are deleted
while True:
# let us get 200 statuses per API call.
# trim_user helps improve performance by reducing size of return value
timeline_args = {'user_id': user_id, 'count': 200, 'trim_user': 'true'}
# if not first iteration, use max_status_id seen so far
if max_status_id != 0:
timeline_args['max_id'] = max_status_id
# Get statuses from user timeline
statuses = api.GetUserTimeline(**timeline_args)
#if no more tweets are left, then break the loop
if statuses is None or len(statuses) == 0:
break
for status in statuses:
# remember max_status_id seen so far
max_status_id = long(status.id) - 1
# delete the tweet with current status[id]
api.DestroyStatus(status.id)