Disable RTs from all the people you follow on Twitter.

shh.rb

require "rubygems"
require "twitter"

# get these from apps.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = "foo"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "bar"
OAUTH_TOKEN = "blee"
OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET = "baz"

TWITTER_USER = "your_username" # needs to be the one associated with keys above

client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key        = CONSUMER_KEY
  config.consumer_secret     = CONSUMER_SECRET
  config.access_token        = OAUTH_TOKEN
  config.access_token_secret = OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET
end

following_ids = client.friend_ids(TWITTER_USER).to_a

puts "🙉"

following_ids.each do |id|
  begin
    unless client.user(id).to_s == "17275139" # can't miss my dad's retweets 😮
      puts "Disabling RTs from your pal #{client.user(id).screen_name}"
      client.friendship_update(client.user(id), {:retweets => false})
    end
  rescue Twitter::Error::TooManyRequests => error
    puts "Got an error, probably rate-limiting... waiting #{error.rate_limit.reset_in} seconds to try again"
    sleep(error.rate_limit.reset_in)
    retry
  end
end

puts "Done!"