twitter-mass-follow

Follow a list of Twitter profile URLs

I used this to follow 100+ Bitcoin-related Twitter users from http://blog.coingecko.com/top-cryptocurrency-people-to-follow/.

• I first retrieve the list using this JavaScript in the console:

document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="https://twitter.com/"]').map(function (item){ return item.href; }).join('\n');

• Copy-paste into the file follow.txt

• Make an app on https://apps.twitter.com/ with read/write permissions. Add the relevant keys to .env like so:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<key>
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<secret>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<token>
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=<secret>

• Run the script with $ ruby follow.rb. Or run it in the background with $ ruby follow.rb --silent &.

• Reset follow.txt checkpoint with $ rm .username