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Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by JoachimSchipper »

darkstar999 wrote: post #50
apike wrote: post #47

> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back > t leaders | xargs t unfollow This is an interesting way to circumvent the Twitter API guidelines - the above feature is disallowed and will get your key revoked. However, since each t user has their own key, enforcing this is implausible other than by throttling the rate at which you can unfollow people. To be clear, I don't support people trying to do this…

Why is this bad? It sounds like a great way to clean up. (I don't use twitter much)

Twitter has certain ideas about how their product should be used, and try to enforce those. Unfollowing everyone who doesn't follow you puts some pressure on people to follow people who they would not otherwise follow, which makes them less happy with Twitter.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by apike »

darkstar999 wrote: post #50
apike wrote: post #47

> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back > t leaders | xargs t unfollow This is an interesting way to circumvent the Twitter API guidelines - the above feature is disallowed and will get your key revoked. However, since each t user has their own key, enforcing this is implausible other than by throttling the rate at which you can unfollow people. To be clear, I don't support people trying to do this…

Why is this bad? It sounds like a great way to clean up. (I don't use twitter much)

Unfollowing everybody who doesn't follow you is a sign that you don't actually follow people to read them, but instead follow people to generate spammy emails and increase your followers count.

Some people get agitated by this behaviour because either:

1. They are only willing to receive follow emails about people who are actually going to read their content - otherwise it's effectively spam

2. High following counts are a quick signal to help ignore spammy email, but spammy people mitigate this by unfollowing people who didn't follow back due to their spammy emails

If you'd like to clean up your following list to make it more readable, I'd suggest unfollowing a handful of high-volume tweeters, or using a tool like my Unladen Follow http://www.unladenfollow.com/.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by gizzlon »

jazzychad wrote: post #15

A brief plug for my friend's command line tool TTYtter: http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ super-crazy powerful, has an interactive mode, is scriptable, etc, etc... Also, I'm glad you are able to manipulate lists in T by just typing names (t list add presidents BarackObama Jasonfinn). This is a _total_ pain on the website where you can only manipulate lists by clicking about 5 buttons per person you want to ad…

Looks cool! And very geeky :)

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by adambyrtek »

luigi wrote: post #14

Termtter has been around for years. It does bad ass things like automate the Twitter OAuth process, stream live updates, and it has terminal colors: https://github.com/termtter/termtter Also: https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake

I heard about at least a dozen of different command line Twitter client, most of which are just experimental projects. Which one would you really recommend for daily use? (This is a general question, not directly related to projects mentioned in the parent comment.)

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by gaius »

lazerwalker wrote: post #37
zotz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Titter" is a word having nothing to do with gender. "None could laugh, though the Ape-man had a chattering titter." The Island of Doctor Moreau, HG Wells

Following the comment thread, it would appear that the original 'sexism' comment was referring to https://github.com/ricardobeat/clit

CLI is the recognized, time-honoured, universal abbreviation for "command line interface". Given that, I don't see a problem with using it as a prefix.

Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by [deleted] »

bodyfour wrote: post #41
arakawa wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing that struck me is that there are no one letter commands in UNIX (that I can remember off the top of my head). Not sure if there's any reason for this besides namespace scarcity -- only 26 one-letter commands you can have! It feels pretty arbitrary, I guess, to decide that Twitter is special enough that it gets to be one of the 26.

"w" is standard on most UNIX machines, At one time, "f" was a link to "finger" on many machines, but I think that's mostly died out now. And of course there's "X", although you usually don't run that yourself at the command line unless you're debugging something.

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Re: Introducing T: A command-line power tool for Twitter

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Post by ricardobeat »

pudquick wrote: post #29
jsprinkles wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll ignore the pointless first statement just as you ignored several of my questions. If you don't want people questioning your opinions, don't share them publicly. How, exactly, does the choice of name minimize women? If a woman wrote 'clit', would you say the same thing? If a woman wrote 'dong', would we call her sexist? I understand the problem, but we're really throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. An e…

With a universe of possible ASCII combinations to choose from - just because a particular iteration is witty, it does not automatically exclude it from offending one or more groups of people (whatever the reasoning). If you want widespread adoption of your tool, your best bet is to try to offend as few groups as possible.

It was just an exercise. Maybe I'll name the next one "xfwkl".
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