chaseman Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 The idea is as follows: snatch other people's followers, 1. you insert a persons name into the input box 2. choose follow 100 most recent followers bang and now you're following that person's followers... I never got into API programming, and I'm just wondering do you guys think this is possible with Twitter's API? Or do you think they probably restricted it? My second question is, would it be hard to do and would it require a lot of time invested? I'd give this a try in PHP obviously. Thanks for suggestions. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseman Posted May 14, 2011 Author Share Posted May 14, 2011 Found this video: The Twitter API seems to be simpler than I thought it would be. I think I'm going to get into that next. Also found this cool book: Twitter API: Up and Running: Learn How to Build Applications with the Twitter API Going to grab that one! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Yes it's possible. Hard? I wouldn't consider it so, but your not me. Time? 10 minutes, again, your time may differ. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215257 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseman Posted May 14, 2011 Author Share Posted May 14, 2011 Thanks, all I wanted to know, I'm going to get into it as my next project, though I it's going to take me more than 10 minutes. My biggest concern was if it's possible, I thought maybe Twitter has restricted it since a lot of the other Twitter services do not provide this feature. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 I think the biggest time consumer would be in researching the Twitter API, but you seem to be half way there at least anyway. As for other services not providing it, perhaps it's not really that desirable. I don't go near Twitter myself, but why would you want to follow 100 or so random people that someone else does? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 but why would you want to follow 100 or so random people that someone else does? I was just about to ask that myself. For one, 100 people is a lot of people cluttering up your timeline. And, second, if those people aren't people you find you like, you'll have to manually un-follow them. It just doesn't seem like a very useful feature. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 why would you want to follow 100 or so random people that someone else does? To recursively farm for people to spam, obviously. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseman Posted May 14, 2011 Author Share Posted May 14, 2011 Crayon, I expected people would react that way, but there's really nothing shady about it, there's meaning and sense behind it. I could go on and explain, but I'll start convincing people, when the time is right. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/236369-got-a-twitt0rrr-idea-possible-and-is-it-hard-to-do/#findComment-1215475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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