This simple script that follows the next X number of people tweeting with a particular search term.
Uses the wonderful 'twitter' gem by sferik.
1.0
Go to https://apps.twitter.com/app/new and create a new app. Make sure you enable read+write access. Then plug your keys in the config.yml file
chmod +x autofollower.rb
./autofollower '[search term]' [count]
MIT