Auto Unfollow people who update twitter from foursquare

Auto Unfollow people who foursquare

# Gem by John Nunemaker http://twitter.rubyforge.org/ | http://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter
require 'twitter'

# yea, I know, should be oauth, but hey, this is just a script you run locally. So, whatever.
httpauth = Twitter::HTTPAuth.new('username', 'pasword')
client = Twitter::Base.new(httpauth)

# This selects only twenty last tweets. Play with the query  for 
#  http://rdoc.info/rdoc/jnunemaker/twitter/blob/d2432da5a54fc9b788258ff9adfc93b379624957/Twitter/Base.html#friends_timeline-instance_method to receive more tweets
foursquares = client.friends_timeline.select {|t| t.source =~ /foursquare\.com/ }

foursquares.each do |fsq|
  client.friendship_destroy(fsq.user.id)
  #You may want to send that user a reply
  client.update("@#{fsq.user.screen_name} I don't like you littering my timeline with foursqaure thingies. And unfollowed you. #nananana", { in_reply_to_status_id => fsq.id })
end

oh. And also. This is a Joke. Eventhough I really do dislike foursquare a lot, and eventhough I do unfollow people who foursquare me, by hand most often, the fact that I wrote a li'l script for it, is not an attack on all the happy foursquare folks out there. It is a joke. Hahaha.