Unfollows a list of accounts you're following that haven't tweeted in over 30 days.

Make sure to have ruby installed (you can use rvm), and then install dependencies with bundler:

bundle install

Set the required environment variables in .env containing your twitter API credentials:

• TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY
• TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY
• TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

You can use the sample env file for reference:

mv .env.sample .env

You can get Twitter API credentials from the Twitter apps page.

Run the script passing your username:

$ ruby purge.rb @username

Twitter account: @username
following count: 4154
checking user: 45409867
checking user: 133008925
checking user: 26318018
...

The script will check if the user has tweeted in the last 30 days. If they haven't tweeted in that timeframe, then it will unfollow them. The script creates a .cache file containing checked users so if the script is halted you can resume skipping already checked users. The script is simple and easy to modify to your own criteria.

MIT