A dumb little script to analyze your twitter followers.

Do they really care?

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'hpricot'

class Twitter

  def initialize(username, password)
    
    @http = Net::HTTP.start('twitter.com')
    @username = username
    @password = password
    
  end

  def _get_doc_for_url(url)
    url = URI.parse(url)
    req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.request_uri)
    req.basic_auth(@username, @password)
    res = @http.request(req)
    return Hpricot.XML(res.body)
  end

  def followers(page=1)
    url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/followers.xml?page=#{page}"
    doc = self._get_doc_for_url(url)
    followers = doc.search("users user").map { |u| u.at("screen_name").inner_text }
    if followers.length == 100
      followers += self.followers(page+1)
    end
    return followers
  end
  
  def friends(page=1)
    url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml?page=#{page}"
    doc = self._get_doc_for_url(url)
    friends = doc.search("users user").map { |u| u.at("screen_name").inner_text }
    if friends.length == 100
      friends += self.friends(page+1)
    end
    return friends
  end
  
  def repliers(page=1)
    return [] if page > 5
    url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/replies.xml?page=#{page}"
    doc = self._get_doc_for_url(url)
    repliers = doc.search("statuses status user").map { |u| u.at("screen_name").inner_text }
    if repliers.length == 20
      repliers += self.repliers(page+1)
    end
    return repliers
  end
end

f = Twitter.new("your username", "your password")  

followers = f.followers
friends = f.friends
repliers = f.repliers

unreciprocated = friends - followers
groupies = followers - friends
tentative_unrepentant_unreciprocators = unreciprocated - repliers
unreciprocated_but_thinking_of_you = repliers & unreciprocated

puts "UNRECIPROCATED"
puts "--------------"
p unreciprocated

puts "\n"

puts "TENTATIVE UNREPENTANT UNRECIPROCATORS"
puts "-------------------------------------"
p tentative_unrepentant_unreciprocators

puts "\n"

puts "UNRECIPROCATED BUT THINKING OF YOU"
puts "----------------------------------"
p unreciprocated_but_thinking_of_you

puts "\n"

puts "GROUPIES"
puts "--------"
p groupies