Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero - Latest Comments in How to auto-follow on Twitter

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

aalaap — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:51:52 -0000

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.

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Bogdan — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:58:42 -0000

do you have a youtube video with the steps to do this?

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

cspenn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:46:14 -0000

Haven't been able to do it without the API yet...

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Anthony — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:31:35 -0000

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.

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:12:24 -0000

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.

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:22:26 -0000

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.

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

annieh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:34:24 -0000

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