I've made part of TwitReport into 3 different programs (well, "scripts" really) so that they can be more easily used.
"Give two Twitter users, show me how many [and who] follows both of them" http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/twitter-we-are-both-followed-by.sh "Given two Twitter users, show me how many [and who] we both follow" http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/twitter-we-both-follow.sh "Given two Twitter users, show me how many [and who] "A" follows who "B" also follows http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/twitter-who-does-a-follow-who-follows-b.sh I would probably run the last one twice, once like this: twitter-who-does-a-follow-who-follows-b.sh joe ed and once like this twitter-who-does-a-follow-who-follows-b.sh ed joe USAGE: ====== 1) Each of the scripts takes exactly two arguments, Twitternames (not including the @) 2) Each will show the names of the people in the results (both 'name' and 'screen_name' according the API) 3) If you use the '-c' flag as the *first* argument, each will only report back a 'count' without the names (saves on API hits), for example: twitter-who-does-a-follow-who-follows-b.sh -c joe ed NOTES: ====== 1) All 3 of those scripts rely on http://twitreport.tntluoma.com/id-to-name.sh to transform the Twitter ID #s into actual names. 2) The scripts use curl and the --netrc flag, which means your Twitter credentials need to be in ~/.netrc like so: machine twitter.com login yourTwitterName password seKret 3) id-to-name.sh will now cache results locally, to reduce API hits, but if you run this on two people with 10s of thousands of overlapping followers, well, as you know, each (uncached) ID-to-Name conversion is an API hit. I've thought about adding a user-configurable "threshhold" to the scripts to limit the results that it will display, but haven't done so in these versions. Just coming up with the lists themselves is pretty easy, about 2 API hits per script. It's the conversion from IDs to Names that has the "cost". Anyway, they are offered here in case anyone can make use of them. Not sure if they would be of interest to anyone else, but since I had already written them up, I figured might as well share them here. TjL
