First edition of my “who follows me” is ready. I have seen over the last months on twitter that some accounts with a lot of followers are unfollowing me, and then following me again if I haven't followed them. I guess this is because they see that sometimes people will follow-back when they are followed. I don't want to spend time following people who only follows me to get one follower back. I follow because of content, so as of today I will not get the email from twitter when somebody new starts to follow me - I will use my script to verify that the new follower is still there the next day. And then I will see if this person is somebody I would like to follow.
I will test some more before I open the solution up for others. This web-based application will when it runs take a dump of all the IDs following a specific twitter user. Each follower will be listed in the database, and then the next time the script is executed it will compare if the follower is there or not. If it has “unfollowed” it will be marked as unfollowed in the database, but still have a record. This way I can see if somebody starts to follow me. The question is how frequently this script needs to be executed to “pick-up” those “unfollow/follow”-people. Stay tuned!
Post in the comments if you want to try this when it is ready!
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