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ProgrammingforMarketers / grow-twitter-following

Code to help you automate increasing your twitter followers
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Unfollowing should be done before adding new followers & limits on followers #4

Open jakeingit opened 8 years ago

jakeingit commented 8 years ago

By having the auto-unfollowers on the 4th of 4 sample scripts, you give new users the chance to follow a ton of new people only to un follow them right away. By putting the #4 script on top, you can start your script with a logical flow of pruning the dead followers and then adding more to let it grow, not the other way around as it is presented.

Also, there is a limit of follows and unfollows that should be randomized to throw the bots off. To always follow AND unfollow 200 people a day is so incredibly obvious that one is botting. It doesnt take much for Twitter to see that a user is doing the same number a day. I will submit a pull request here to incorporate these changes.

jakeingit commented 8 years ago

Adding an auto_fav before adding from hashtags may also be good for throwing people off. I am working on a branch as there is substantial changes. All that is left is figuring out how to execute these scripts at certain intervals in the week/month.