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Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Chris — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:54:22 -0000

Great little tool, although they will shut your account down...I was lucky that took the suspension off.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

nicofars — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:45:54 -0000

is there a way to check if it really did action an Auto-follow (like last twitter auto-follow is "xxx" at 24/11/08 12:34) ?
As I am pretty sure it's not working, I set-up a few keyword including "sharepoint" and it didn't auto-follow anyone, even though this keyword has been widely used for the past 48hours.
thanks, great idea though.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Rob Corbett — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:37:55 -0000

Hey Jon, great idea man....

However it does not seem to be working for my twitter account MeetRobCorbett

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Rob

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

HaHaGood — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:19:14 -0000

A little problem:

How can I tell twollow NOT to follow someone?

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

John Carson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:59:43 -0000

Hi Jon,

I blogged about Twollow here: http://blogs.gcigroup.com/fineprint/2008/11/20/...

Although not my preferred method of following people, I'm curious as to how the keywords are distinguished, or are the phrases "catch-all" for a string of words?

Please can you post a reply in the comments section of my post for others to read, or tweet me at johncarson and I'll post it.

Many thanks and good luck with your endeavours.

John.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

tedroden — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:35:24 -0000

Awesome! Signed up, looks great.

How often does it update?

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

j0n — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:15:15 -0000

It only tracks new keywords, not keywords previously mentioned on the site.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

tedroden — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:13:31 -0000

Seems awesome. Does it work historically or just going forward? Meaning, when I sign up, does it search for old records with "WhateverSearchTerm" or just going forward?

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

David — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:21:06 -0000

So I tested this for a time and I must say, it just doesn't work.
I am only following 1 new person and that's just Jon Wheatley himself.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:40:59 -0000

Does this pick up every mention of the keywords? I Set up the keywords on one account and then posted a tweet using one of the words on my other account and did not get auto-added.

Thanks!

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

David — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:46:40 -0000

It's obvious you have to use your twitter-account to log in but maybe you should say that on the site, every other twitter mashup does it, too.
Also you shoould write something to assure the user, no mischief is done with their username+password?!

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

mak1e — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:23:23 -0000

I guess you need to create a seperate account for your family+closefriends. and you'll need to get a twitt client that supports as-many twitter accounts as you can :D, I guess thats an idea I have never come across with some twitter apps :D, or I'll just do it myself...

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Roshan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:05:52 -0000

great i am using it right now to track my teckitech blog keywords

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

jamesmcdonald — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:49:39 -0000

It's a great service jon, although a few additional features would be awesome. I think maybe some sort of list of followers expanding from each keyword would be quite cool. For example, for everyone who tweets "social media" ... you can then view a list of the amount of people who you are following, that have tweeted out "social media".

Nonetheless, another great idea.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Anto — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:50:47 -0000

This is a good idea. But god damn. It follows more or less news twitters, that tweet out news bullshit.

It can be good in some ways, but for people just wanting to follow friends, or family its a nono.

But none the less, good idea jon.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Gareth — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:46:41 -0000

Glad it's fixed, some moron was bound to try it sooner or later.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

j0n — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:35:32 -0000

You caught me a little off-guard there Gareth. It's all fixed up now but some slipped through the net.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Gareth — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:57:36 -0000

Update: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/eba986da6211bdf20...

Let's find out!

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

j0n — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:56:55 -0000

We've added some security features so that can't happen.

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Gareth — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:54:47 -0000

So, for example, could I choose the words 'the', 'and' and 'a' and be following every single Twitter user on the interwebz within a day?

Re: Automatically follow people on twitter with twollow.

Dice — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:26:38 -0000

How can I be as cool as you jon?