Auto Block Twitter mentions who you do not follow

autoblock-twitter.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# autoblock-twitter.py
# Automatically block twitter users who mention you in a tweet that you do not follow.
# I wrote this as my user is @cli and I was constantly getting unrelated spam mentions
# License : GPLv2+
# Author : Keiran "Affix" Smith <Affix_AT_affix_DOT_me>

import tweepy

consumer_key=""
consumer_secret=""

access_token=""
access_token_secret=""

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)

api = tweepy.API(auth)

count = 0

mentions = tweepy.Cursor(api.mentions).items()

for status in mentions:
	 if status.user.following or status.user.verified:
		print "Not Blocking : " + status.user.screen_name + " %r" % status.user.verified
	 else:
		api.create_block(status.user.screen_name)
		api.update_status("Blocked User : @" + status.user.screen_name)
		count = count + 1

api.update_status("@twitter Auto Block blocked : %d users" % count)