Great body of work here TjL, thanks for sharing. Good examples for people wanting to get up and running with the API.
@dougw On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:00 AM, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is a "TwitReport"? > > Well, you know the "new follower" emails that you get? > > They aren't very useful, are they? I mean it's nice to know that > you've got a new follower, but it doesn't tell you anything about > them. So what do you do? > > You could click on the page and see if they are someone you want to > follow but -- Oops, look, they have their updates protected. Or all > they post is links to their website about how to profit from the new > social media scene. > > Etc. > > Wouldn't it be nice to get a quick look at their 'stats'? How many > followers / friends / posts they have? When did they join Twitter? On > average, how often do they post? How many of those posts, on average, > are @replies? > > Did they post anything for their Bio, Location, or Website? > > Can I see their last 20 updates so I can see if they seem interesting? > > 1) Who else do they follow who I follow? > > 2) Who else follows them who I follow? > > 3) Who else follows both me and this new person? > > If they look like a spammer, how about showing me the Block URL? > > For that matter, why not show me their Twitter avatar/icon/picture, I > might not recognize their name, but I might recognize their picture. > > Well, that's what TwitReport tells you, all right in your email, so > you can look them over at your leisure, even on the go (the emails are > formatted to work well on an iPhone [including the picture] and should > work on other mobile devices as well). > > (You can find out more including how to use it at > http://tr.im/twitreport and/or follow @twitreport at > http://twitter.com/twitreport ) > > > That's the "What". > > The "How" is all done on the commandline, using standard Unix tools: > curl, sed, grep, etc. > > In fact I've amassed a little collection of scripts designed to answer > the question "How to do basic things on Twitter via the commandline". > > What to see everyone who follows you who you don't follow? > > What to see everyone who you follow who doesn't follow you? > > Want to "balance" your followers, that is, follow everyone who is > following you and unfollow everyone who isn't? > > Want to be able to favorite the last update that someone posted just > by using their name? [*] > > I coded up a bunch of these, including some with no real practical use > ("Want to fav the last 20 posts that someone made?"), some that can be > easily re-used (validate that a given input is a real twitter user, > convert a Twitter ID to a Twitter Name), along with the script that > powers twitreport, and put them all up here > > http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/ > > in the hopes that they might be of some use to someone > > FWIW > > TjL > > > > [*] why? two reasons: 1) Twitterrific pops up, I can cmd+tab to > Terminal and fav it on the commandline. NO MOUSE NEEDED. Also, 2) I > can KNOW that it went through. My satellite connection is kinda flaky > sometimes, so my script will read back the tweet that I fav'd to make > sure that it was the right one and to confirm that it went through > -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
