#Twitter Follow Bot
A Python bot that can automatically follow users and favorite tweets associated with a specific search query on Twitter. Also has the ability to unfollow all users not currently following you back.
##Algorithm It only follows user who have follower count > 2000 & following count > 2000 and the ratio of followers to following is greater than 0.6
I have found these modifications very helpful.
##Dependencies
You will need to install Python's twitter library first:
easy_install twitter
You will also need to create an app account on https://dev.twitter.com/apps
- Sign in with your Twitter account
- Create a new app account
- Modify the settings for that app account to allow read & write
- Generate a new OAuth token with those permissions
- Manually edit this script and put those tokens in the script
##Usage
Currently, the bot has three functions:
####Automatically follow any users that tweet something with a specific phrase
from twitter_follow_bot import auto_follow
auto_follow("phrase")
You can also search based on hashtags.
By default, the bot looks up the 100 most recent tweets. You can change this number with the count parameter:
from twitter_follow_bot import auto_follow
auto_follow("phrase", count=1000)
####Automatically follow any users that have followed you
from twitter_follow_bot import auto_follow_followers
auto_follow_followers()
####Automatically favorite any tweets that have a specific phrase
from twitter_follow_bot import auto_fav
auto_fav("phrase", count=1000)
####Automatically unfollow any users that have not followed you back (with exceptions that you can set)
from twitter_follow_bot import auto_unfollow_nonfollowers
auto_unfollow_nonfollowers()
You will need to manually edit the code if you want to add special users that you will keep following even if they don't follow you back.
Inspired by https://github.com/rhiever/twitter-follow-bot