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random_follower.rb
USER = 'github'
require 'open-uri'
user_id = open("http://twitter.com/followers/ids/#{USER}.xml").read.scan(/\d+/).sort_by { rand }.first
user_name = open("http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?user_id=#{user_id}").read[/screen_name>(\w+)/, 1]
puts user_name
`open http://twitter.com/#{user_name}`
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