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Auto-Follow Those that Follow you on Twitter

Started by jessestay · 10 months ago

reddit_url = 'http://staynalive.com/articles/2007/11/14/auto-follow-those-that-follow-you-on-twitter/';

On Twitter, it is generally polite to follow those that follow you - they are saying, “you are interesting” ... Continue reading »

20 comments

  • Chris Pirillo

    1 year ago

    Can't locate Net/Twitter.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./auto_follow.pl line 3.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./auto_follow.pl line 3.

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  • uncle_jesse

    1 year ago

    Chris, you need to install Net::Twitter for perl. You can do that by entering the command above:


    perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Twitter'


    Please feel free to comment or e-mail me if you have any more issues.

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  • compassioninpolitics

    1 year ago

    Giving people the benefit of the doubt makes a ton of sense.


    I know I'm more willing to listen to folks who follow me. Folks that one way twitter are terribly frustrating. (as are people who try to spam 4,000+ people) When Guy Kawasaki finally decided to follow me after a month or two of not doing so, I know I'm going to be visiting his blog much more often.


    Hat tip and props to Creative Sage for bringing me over to this post from Twitter.

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  • Eli

    1 year ago

    I think your download link may be down. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this is accomplished. thanks for your contribution, and best of luck with your projects.
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  • Jesse Stay

    1 year ago

    Eli, try it again. You might also want to try socialtoo.com - I take all of the hard work out of it for you by doing it all for you there.
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  • Eli

    1 year ago

    Hey Jesse - Thanks for the quick response!

    I was able to grab the download this time, but as per your socialtoo.com, that site seems to be down instead.

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  • Jesse Stay

    1 year ago

    sorry - there's a bug there - you have to go to http://www.socialtoo.com (notice the www). I'll get that fixed soon...
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  • Benjamin Higginbotham

    1 year ago

    OK, I must be an idiot. I installed Net::Twitter and I get a install OK on that. When I drag the auto_follow.pl in to my terminal I get a 'command not found' with it (using sudo as well). What am I missing here? It has to be something simple.
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  • Jesse Stay

    1 year ago

    Benjamin, unless you're set on running it on your own computer, I suggest just signing up for SocialToo.com - I've implemented it on a multi-user scale there and you can also blacklist users and do other stuff, including stuff on Facebook. If you like it, tell your friends about it!
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  • Ronald Wiplinger

    9 months ago

    $ ./auto_follow.pl
    Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at ./auto_follow.pl line 26.

    What gone wrong?
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  • jessestay

    9 months ago

    The Net::Twitter library has issues right now - I would recommend just
    signing up at http://socialtoo.com and let it take care of that for
    you. I'll release an updated version of the code here as soon as I
    get a chance.

    Jesse
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  • Jerry Ong

    8 months ago

    Do you have zip version for download? thanks :)
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  • jessestay

    8 months ago

    Jerry, for now I suggest just signing up for SocialToo.com - it takes
    care of it all for you. I'll be releasing another version of this
    that is much more updated soon, which I'll provide a zip version.
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  • paranoid

    8 months ago

    i use tweelater for this..!!!
    :)
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  • jessestay

    8 months ago

    paranoid - with Tweetlater you have to set up e-mail rules to do it.
    This requires no configuration on your end - it does it all for you,
    nothing you have to do. Tweetlater also does not track unfollows.
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  • Gypsy

    6 months ago

    SocialToo.com doesn't work at all. with a www. in front of it or not.

    what's another suggestion?
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  • jessestay

    6 months ago

    Gypsy, please try it again. We were having DNS issues earlier today, but
    they're fixed now.
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  • Ryan

    5 months ago

    Hi did you ever fix the issue "Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at ./auto_follow.pl line 26."?
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  • jessestay

    5 months ago

    Ryan, I've deferred most of the work on this over to my site, SocialToo.com,
    which will do all of this for you.
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  • theschnaz

    2 months ago

    Can't locate object method "follow" via package "Net::Twitter" at auto_follow.pl line 32.
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