iilv, Another way to auto-follow is to use the Social Graph API methods. For instance you could set up a script to run periodically that does the following:
1) download all of a user's friends' ID's through the friends/ids method and store them in a data structure 2) download all of the user's followers' IDs through the followers/ids method and store them in the data structure 3) perform a diff on these two data structures, finding all follower ids not currently in the friend id list. 4) follow the follower ids from step 3 with the friendships/create method This circumvents the parsing of new follower emails. The trade off is that it is not real-time since the script has to be run at periodic intervals. Hope that helps. Doug Williams @dougw do...@igudo.com On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:47 PM, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, you can't auto-follow when someone sends you a DM, because you > have to ALREADY be following someone in order to get a DM. > > You can auto-follow when someone starts to follow you. > > If you are familiar with procmail, you can auto-follow using the recipe below. > > (If you are not familiar with procmail, please delete and ignore. It's > beyond my scope to teach and not every mail server supports it.) > > > > :0ci > * ^X-Twitteremailtype: is_following > * ^From: ....@postmaster\.twitter\.com > * ^Subject: .* is now following you on Twitter! > * ^X-Twittersenderscreenname: \/[^ ]+ > | curl --netrc -s \ > --data POST \ > "http://twitter.com/friendships/create/$MATCH.xml"; >/dev/null > > Note that you MUST have your twitter credentials stored in ~/.netrc > for this to work in a format like this: > > machine twitter.com > login YourTwitternameHere > password SeKrEt > > Also note that this doesn't do any error-checking to make sure that > the auto-follow has worked. > > FWIW > > TjL -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com
