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#!/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
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