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Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Pathi M Graf — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:37:48 -0000

Hi Christoper, i just started to use TTYtter, but i did found a solution, how to auto-follow. Could you push me to right direction?

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Christopher S. Penn — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:06:15 -0000

This has long since expired, sir. I now recommend you get and install TTYtter which supports the same functionality.

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

J@mes — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:34:23 -0000

This code has refused to run when i compiled it using easyphp, anyone knows how to correct this or any other script that functions??

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

J@mes — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 10:32:52 -0000

The code doesnt work, tried to run it using php and i got an error message anyone knows how to fix the problem or another working script that functions

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

frederico — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:10:29 -0000

THX, this is very good and so much easier.... have a good day

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

netsparx — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:08:22 -0000

If you have a domain for email you can pipe the email to a php file to strip the line with the user name and presto call it from there on.

In cpanel hosting there is an option to filter emails which can be "piped" to a file.

Let the php do it's magic instantly. Hmmm...

Re: How to auto-follow on Twitter

Aming — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:27:49 -0000

yea, that's I've been looking for! You know it was make me mad when I should using twitter and I should follow back anyone who follow me! You know it was waste the time. Thank for your information

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

Christopher S. Penn — 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.