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jflessau / winbot-twitter-bot

Twitter contest bot trained to win giveaways.
MIT License
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Blacklist #6

Closed mikes1980 closed 6 years ago

mikes1980 commented 6 years ago

Hi, how do you go about blocking people on the blacklist? Is there another bot you use for this? If so, what's it called?

Many thanks :)

jflessau commented 6 years ago

Hi mikes1980, there is no other bot for blocking accounts from the blacklist. Whenever this bot searches for tweets, it removes tweets from blacklisted users. Afterwards only tweets from ’good’ people are left to retweet/like/follow.

The blacklist makes it easy to use this bot with multible accounts, so you don’t have to block these users with each of your accounts.

mikes1980 commented 6 years ago

Hi, thanks for your reply! Do I have to change the format of your blacklisted-users.txt (like add a returns or commas in between twitter names). I noticed, for example, people in my follows.txt also appear in blacklisted-users.txt

jflessau commented 6 years ago

One username per line, no spaces, no commas no @-symbols. Make sure to use the unique username instead of the display-name. For example: ’IKEA USA’ is the display-name, ’IKEAUSA’ is the unique username we want. ‏ This bot won't automatically unfollow blacklistet users. It simply does not interact/follow them in the first place (as long as they are on the list).

Please tell me, whether this helps or not :)

mikes1980 commented 6 years ago

Excellent, thank you so much for your help!