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Created January 1, 2010 01:02
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curl -d 'track=one line' http://stream.twitter.com/track.json -ubotcualquiera:botpass > tweets.json 2> /dev/null & tail -f tweets.json | \
while read tweet; do echo $tweet | \
grep -E -o '"screen_name":"[[:alnum:]]+"' | cut -d '"' -f 4 | while read screen_name; do \
echo "following: $screen_name"; curl -d '' http://twitter.com/friendships/create/$screen_name.json?follow=true -ubotcualquiera:botpass; \
done ; \
done
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