Feature reqest: pin certain tweets when deleting old statuses

[bajtos]

I love the idea of deleting old tweets and likes. After running the cleanup for my Twitter account, I received an email from Keybase.io about a broken proof. The thing is, Keybase depends on a tweet with a special text to establish a (cryptographically) verified link between a Keybase and a Twitter account, see e.g. here: https://twitter.com/bajtos/status/1257653404383555585

I am proposing to add a new sync option allowing users to specify a list of tweet ids to never delete. For example:

[twitter]
delete_older_statuses = true
keep_statuses = ["1257653404383555585"]

I have briefly considered using a special hashtag like #pin to mark tweets to be preserved, but that won't work for Keybase, that requires the tweet to have the exact content provided by the app.

[klausi]

Ugh, that is a bit annoying of keybase.

I think your suggestion makes sense, we just need a good name for the option. keep_statuses sounds like a boolean flag, but it is an array of strings.

Suggestions:

• keep_tweet_ids
• keep_status_ids
• preserve_tweet_ids
• preserve_status_ids

What do you think?

[bajtos]

we just need a good name for the option. keep_statuses sounds like a boolean flag, but it is an array of strings.

Makes sense 👍

Considering that we already have delete_older_statuses, I think either preserve_status_ids or keep_status_ids would be a good name. I think I slightly prefer preserve_status_ids.

[klausi]

OK, I'm fine with preserve_status_ids and keep_status_ids. Your choice!