Oh thats awesome! Every now and then I'll get a 503 Bad Gateway error but that is to be expected at least a few times for 24,000+ calls :-)
Zac Bowling http://twitter.com/zbowling http://zbowling.com/ On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Matt Sanford <[email protected]> wrote: > I usually lack any whale humor, but here goes: > v v v > | | v | v > | .-, | | | > .--./ / | _.---.| > '-. (__..-" \ > \ a | > ',.__. ,__.-'/ > '--/_.'----'` > T H E W H A L E > S L E E P S > T O N I G H T > On Feb 23, 2009, at 01:52 PM, Zac Bowling wrote: > > Script is running now. It has a 1.5 second delay between calls to be > nice to twitter (hope that is enough). Already down about 2,000 > people. > > using the twyt python library (with some modifications to support the > new social graph api) and simplejson. > > ------- > from twyt.twitter import Twitter > import simplejson > import time > > t = Twitter() > t.set_auth("loic","xxxx") > b = simplejson.loads(t.user_friends_graph()) > for i in range(len(b)): > try: > t.friendship_destroy(b[i]) > print "%s - unfriending %s" % (i,b[i]) > except Exception: > #TODO: INSERT ASCII FAIL WHALE > print "<insert ascii fail whale here!>" > time.sleep(1.5) > > ------- > > Thanks a ton! > > Zac Bowling > http://twitter.com/zbowling > http://zbowling.com/ > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's not accurate, Nick. All accounts are expected to maintain a > > ratio of followers to following. As long as more people follow you > > than you follow in turn, you're good. > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:55, Nick Arnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Terry Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or if he really does want to start again, just delete the account and > > recreate it. That would have a certain appealing symmetry. > > Ah, but new accounts can only follow 2,000 people, so I'll bet he doesn't > > want that. > > Nick > > > > -- > > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. > > http://twitter.com/al3x > > >
