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Hello !Friendica Support
what do you think, should we have a possibility to delete Twitter accounts from Friendica?

I have a few dozen Twitter contacts in #Friendica from earlier when it was possible to interact with #Twitter users from within Friendica.

So I would like to be able to select several of them and then be able to delete them or preferably say "delete all Twitter contacts" and it will remove them all, including the posts from Twitter, aka. Tweets.
#twitter #friendica !Friendica Support
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] In my opinion, these accounts and posts should be hidden when the Twitter connector is disabled since they are private contacts and posts that don't make sense without the connector.
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan yes, but now the Twitter connector still works one way and also adds Fediverse accounts found in Twitter profiles (not sure if the later one still works).
@Hypolite Petovan
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan post go through to Twitter, so no need to deactivate it yet.
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] No, I didn't mean to deprecate the connector itself, just to hide Twitter contacts and posts once the addon is disabled on your node.
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan yes, but I don't want to disable it yet.

Anyway, I think it would be good to be able to delete contacts in bulk.
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] I don't understand, aren't these contacts people you follow on Twitter from your Twitter account?
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan no, I followed them some years ago, maybe 5 years ago, many I don't follow anymore.
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] Ah, so we should prune contacts that you don't follow on Twitter anymore.
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan yes and allow me to delete this Twitter contacts in Friendica. I never wanted them to be created in Friendica and now it is also confusing that there is a few hundred contacts.
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] This was caused by the "Always create contacts" setting of the connector. If it still is enabled, then contacts would be recreated again automatically.
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utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan never was activated I think, but maybe that was some default at some time. Not sure. So how do I get rid of those contacts?
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] Right now you can't, we removed the "Delete" feature because it was mostly confusing and redundant with "Unfollow" and "Revoke Follow".
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan so I can unfollow, but would have to do that 394 times I guess?
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@utzer [Friendica] Yes, there's no bulk unfollow at the moment.
utzer [Friendica]
utzer [Friendica]  
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@Hypolite Petovan so that I would like to have, a bulk unfollow. 😁
@Hypolite Petovan
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