Follow All Revision 1

follow_all.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'twitter'

# You can get the following by creating a "app" here: https://dev.twitter.com/apps
cli = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key = ""
  config.consumer_secret = ""
  config.access_token = ""
  config.access_token_secret = ""
end

(0..1000).each do |x|
    s = 10
    puts "Loop #{x}"
    puts "#{Time.now.to_s} Rebalancing twitter account..."

    begin
        friends   = cli.friend_ids.entries
        followers = []
    rescue Twitter::Error
        puts "Pulling Lists Stage - Sleeping for #{s} seconds"
        sleep s
        next
    end
    
    begin
      followers = cli.follower_ids.entries
      File.open("followers.txt", "w") do |fd|
        fd.puts(followers.map{|x| x.to_s}.join("\n"))
      end
    rescue Twitter::Error::TooManyRequests
      followers = File.readlines("followers.txt").map{|x| x.strip.to_i }
    rescue Twitter::Error
        puts "Mapping IDs Stage - Sleeping for #{s} seconds"
        sleep s
        next
    end
    
    unfollow = friends - followers
    follow   = followers - friends

    puts "Unfollowing #{unfollow.length} people..."
    # cli.unfollow(unfollow)

    begin
        puts "Following #{follow.length} people..."
        cli.follow!(follow)
    rescue ThreadError
        puts "Thread Error Detected..."
    rescue Exception => e
        puts "Error: #{e.inspect}"
        if e.message =~ /66885/
                s = 43200 # 12 hours
        else
                s = 10
        end
        puts "Following Stage - Sleeping #{s} seconds"
        sleep s
        next
    end
    puts "Sleeping for #{s} seconds until next time"
    sleep s
end