twitter-search-follow-bot

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The twitter search follow bot:

• Searches twitter public timeline for configurable keywords
• Can restrict those users to a particular location too, and,
• Follows users who tweet with those keywords

Changes in this version:

• Use search rather than public timeline fetch directly.
• Much more effective, finds a lot more users!
• New configuration
• Now only need to run every 30 minutes rather than every other minute!

Dependencies: sudo gem install jnunemaker-twitter --source=http://gems.github.com

Configure:

config.yml should be self explanatory.

You can monitor specific keywords from users within a particular lat/long radius.

Install: It's meant to be run as a cron and is not a daemon. Run every thirty minutes or so.

To run: ruby -rubygems search-follow-bot.rb

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All code is Copyright (C) Vishnu Gopal. 2009. This is placed in the Public Domain. Do what you will.

Vishnu Gopal. May 2009.