aplusk.rb

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'
require 'open-uri'
require 'hpricot'

TARGET_USER  = "aplusk"
TARGET_COUNT = 1_000_000
URL          = "http://twitter.com/#{TARGET_USER}"
ID           = '#follower_count'
USERNAME     = ''
PASS         = ''

twitter  = Twitter::Base.new(USERNAME,PASS)
count    = 0
response = ''

while count < TARGET_COUNT
  open(URL){|f| response = f.read}
  count = Hpricot(response).search(ID).inner_html.gsub(',','').to_i  
  p "#{Time.now}: #{TARGET_USER} has #{count} followers"
  if (count == TARGET_COUNT-1)
    p "Holy crap! Follow him! Quick!"
    twitter.create_friendship TARGET_USER
    twitter.follow TARGET_USER
  end
  sleep(1)
end