News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by uptown on Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:19AM (#13731671)
"As an experiment I downloaded my entire archive"

I've wanted to do this, but in order to do it, you need to verify your email address with Twitter. Whenever I request the verification email nothing is sent or delivered. (Checked spam and everything). Twitter's support hasn't responded to my inquires, so I'm basically stuck. Anyone happen to have a solution for this?

Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by amorphid on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:24AM (#13731917)
Use a different email address?
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by uptown on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:53AM (#13732041)
You mean change the one associated with my account? Good idea. I'll give that a shot. Hopefully won't lock me out completely.
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by amorphid on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:08PM (#13733183)
If you haven't already tried it, I did. This seems to work:

- Created email #1 at https://www.guerrillamail.com

- Created test Twitter account using email #1, including receiving email confirmation request

- Created email #2 at https://temp-mail.org/en/

- Without confirming email #1, changed test Twitter account email to email #2

- Received email confirmation request at email #2

- And to be nice, deactivated test Twitter account :)

Good luck!

Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by uptown on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:07PM (#13733181)
This ended up working. Thanks so much for the suggestion!
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by amorphid on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:13PM (#13733209)
LOL, I was curious if it would work myself, so I tried it and posted the results. It worked for me, too :)
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by ValentineC on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:37PM (#13733363)
What email provider were you using at first on your account?
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by uptown on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:24PM (#13733634)
GMail. Only thing I can think is that at some point I may have opted out of all emails from Twitter, and somehow this got swept up in that block.
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by doguozkan on Saturday February 25, 2017 @12:30PM (#13732623)
I'm sure you've already checked it carefully, but just in case, have you perhaps made a small typo? I'm asking because I think that would also explain the support not responding.
Re:I just deleted 36K tweets by uptown on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:59PM (#13733128)
Yeah, there's not really a place where I could have something typed incorrectly. I get all the Twitter marketing emails, but this one, when I press the button to validate my address it just seems to go nowhere.