Former Twitter Engineer Creates App That Lets You Delete Your Tweets With A Hashtag

Deleting tweets is a controversial practice, but does have its uses – and now former Twitter engineer Pierre Legrain has created an app to let you do so in an organized fashion.

“Spirit for Twitter” enables Twitter users to schedule their own tweets to be deleted. Here’s how it works.

Using Spirit for Twitter – a simple signup that grants the app, per usual, permission to read and post to your account – you’d append a hashtag like #12m, #1h, or #4d, and your tweet will disappear after the specified timeframe (12 minutes, 1 hour, 4 days).

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