Twitter Follow Bot

A violation of Twitter's API use policy

January 2014

This was my first time using an API. I was and still am a big Twitter user, although before I was only trying to be funny.

Of course, that meant I wanted a following. And what better way to get that than to use my newfound programming skills than to trick people into following me.

I wrote a code that would run on my computer all day while I was at school, that would follow and then unfollow people in hopes of them following me back. It was quickly shut down.

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