DISQUS

annieh · 1 year ago

Seems like a lot of work when you can just use Twitter Karma. http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/
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.
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.
Anthony · 7 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.
Christopher S. Penn · 7 months ago

Haven't been able to do it without the API yet...
Bogdan · 5 months ago

do you have a youtube video with the steps to do this?
aalaap · 2 months ago

A better way of doing this would be to make the follow script check POP3 email, find any ".. is following you" emails and follow them. Put it in a cron at regular intervals (say, every 5 minutes) and you're done.

The friendships/create method is not subject to API rate limits, but there is a limit on the number of people you can follow in a day or hour or something. I think its 2000 per day at the moment.