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How to auto-follow on Twitter

Started by Christopher S. Penn · 10 months ago

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Ever since announcing that I’d basically follow anyone who’s followed me, I had to come up with a way to make this happen in a timely, efficient process. So here’s how I do it, if you want to use this bizarre workflow yourself. ... Continue reading »

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annieh
1 year ago

Seems like a lot of work when you can just use Twitter Karma. http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/

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Daniel Johnson, Jr.
1 year ago

This is interesting. I wonder how much of an API hit this takes. I bet you probably run this at night when you're not going to be using Twitter that much anyway.

I don't know enough about PHP and BBEdit yet to be able to implement this on Windows.

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Christopher S. Penn
1 year ago

Twitter Karma blows up on me - too many followers.

Dan - it definitely takes an API hit. I'm working on a version that does NOT hit the API.

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Anthony
3 months ago

Chris -- have you sorted out a version that doesn't hit the API? Not sure how you could do that. Would love to hear how you are doing this.

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