You might want to handle this exception. http://d.pr/UZOm It sucks that Twitter's 'Over capacity' responses are being sent in HTML, rather than as an API response.
Show HN: Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitter 'follow' lists
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Re: Show HN: Grim Tweeper, easy way to clean up Twitter 'follow' lists
#12Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones never post anything or something slightly more useful.
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#13damn, got rate limited just as I was picking up steam in chopping off heads
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#14this is pretty good - it could do w/ being a lot faster, and I think describing it as "fun" is a bad idea, but I used it.
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#15Useful tool. Some advice: It seems the order of user is random, I hope there're some better algorithms to present the potential users I may want to kill. The activities of user, times of one user have been killed may count.
Indeed. I can manually remove people (sure, it isn't as fun) but you have a real opportunity to add value here.
The criteria I look at when I do one of my periodic follower purges:
* Do I know them personally?
* Do I follow them back?
* Have they tweeted recently?
* Are their tweets content-laden or link spam?
* (Where you can add value: Do other people unfollow this person frequently?)
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#16also - when you go over capacity I'd take out the cutesy "tired" explanation and just lay the blame on Twitter straight away.
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#17Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones never post anything or something slightly more useful.
http://tweepsect.com/ might be what you need. I built it a few years ago, it tells you who is following you back, and if they haven't tweeted recently, etc.
Unfortunately it doesn't scale well to really huge accounts (+5k nodes).
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#18Seems like all it does is iterate through my Twitter followers and ask me if I want to unfollow each one. I was a little disappointed, I was hoping it would tell me which ones never post anything or something slightly more useful.
Thanks for your thoughts we'll definitely work to add more value, but for now it will tell you how many tweets per day the tweep has and tell you whether they are following you back.
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#19You might want to handle this exception. http://d.pr/UZOm It sucks that Twitter's 'Over capacity' responses are being sent in HTML, rather than as an API response.
Thanks for letting us know! I just added a line of code that should catch that exception and return a better response.
We had caught other exceptions and thought we were good, but glad you showed us one more! Thanks.
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#20damn, got rate limited just as I was picking up steam in chopping off heads
Haha that's awesome! Sorry that the rate limit occurred. We tried our best to make calls as efficient as possible so you could make as many double/triple kills before the Grim Tweeper got tired.