[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-03-15 Thread CodeWolf
LiveCrunch, The whole idea of an API is to be able to use it programatically, without any 3rd party involvement. Thanks though. ;) On Mar 10, 5:17 pm, @LiveCrunch ilovetoar...@gmail.com wrote: Why not just use Socialtoo.com orhttp://m.mwd.com? On Mar 10, 12:12 pm, Stuart stut...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-03-10 Thread CodeWolf
On Feb 25, 3:27 pm, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: 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

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-03-10 Thread @LiveCrunch
Why not just use Socialtoo.com or http://m.mwd.com ? On Mar 10, 12:12 pm, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/10 Doug Williams d...@twitter.com CodeWolf, This is a known limitation of the social graph methods. As you can see from issues 270 [1] and 271 [2] it is a performance hit to

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-02-26 Thread JimShoe
Just the other day, I did this. Its rather easy to do, yes the downside is its not realtime. It would be nice if the api allowed for a call such as get new followers since X-time On Feb 25, 4:27 pm, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: iilv, Another way to auto-follow is to use the Social

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-02-25 Thread Alex Payne
You can parse the email headers in the new follower emails we send out and call the /friendships/create method to follow those users. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#Howshouldmybotfollowusersthatfollowitorinspectdirectmessages On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 23:41, iilv pankaj.khuranac...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-02-25 Thread TjL
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

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-02-25 Thread Doug Williams
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

[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api

2009-02-25 Thread justin kruger
option #3 might include twitter extending their API. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: 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)