[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
Hello, auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to accounts that had it enabled warning that it would go away), and currently there are no plans to re-enable it. Thanks, -Chad On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Fred Brunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm the developer of Twittercal (@gcal) -- a Twitter bot that connects to your Google Calendar. I'm having problems with auto-follow, lots of users are complaining that the bot is not following them back and indeed, it does not. I have too many requests so I can't cope with it manually. The bot is in service since July 2007 and I started seeing problems with auto-follow 4 months ago. I've never managed to get a clear status about the auto-following for my bot. Can someone help me with that? Thanks a lot.
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
Looks like I didn't get the memo. It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers? auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to accounts that had it enabled warning that it would go away), and currently there are no plans to re-enable it.
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:52 PM, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I didn't get the memo. It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers? It has been disabled across the board. -Chad auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to accounts that had it enabled warning that it would go away), and currently there are no plans to re-enable it.
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers? It has been disabled across the board. Ok, so the only solution left on my side would be to go through all the followers and follow them back on a regular basis. Right?
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:20 PM, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, so the only solution left on my side would be to go through all the followers and follow them back on a regular basis. Right? That is correct, or you could setup a system where the new follower emails get forwarded to a script that triggers a mutual follow back. Though you may run into rate-limit problems if you happen to get more than 1000 a day. -Chad
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
That is correct, or you could setup a system where the new follower emails get forwarded to a script that triggers a mutual follow back. Though you may run into rate-limit problems if you happen to get more than 1000 a day. Ok, I'll check this out. Thanks for your help.
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
What about using www.tweetlater.com ? i saw that it gave an option to follow ppl back that follow you. maybe that could work? On Sep 24, 1:52 pm, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like I didn't get the memo. It is a general rule or it has just been disabled for some developers? auto-follow was disabled a while ago (emails should have gone to accounts that had it enabled warning that it would go away), and currently there are no plans to re-enable it.
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
What about usingwww.tweetlater.com? i saw that it gave an option to follow ppl back that follow you. maybe that could work? Thanks for the links. I registered and will give it a try.
[twitter-dev] Re: Status of auto-follow
My site, SocialToo.com will do this for you - we provide filters and such to keep out auto-dms as well. If you'd like to offer it to your users let me know and we can work something out that works out seamlessly for you. Also, yesterday we just launched an anti-virus/anti-worm solution that, regardless of auto-follow will keep out the DMs from your friends with malicious links in them, and reports them to @spam on Twitter. Contact me if you'd like to integrate any of this into your apps. I'd like to get this into more desktop clients so we can proactively keep out the malicious links and compromised accounts from Twitter. Jesse On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, fbrunel fbru...@gmail.com wrote: That is correct, or you could setup a system where the new follower emails get forwarded to a script that triggers a mutual follow back. Though you may run into rate-limit problems if you happen to get more than 1000 a day. Ok, I'll check this out. Thanks for your help.
