Have you ever spent way too much time babysitting a long-running command? Code compilation, large file transfers, software upgrades and other time consuming tasks can trash productivity by requiring intermittent attention.
I have a novel idea; let’s not do that anymore!
A great way to meet new people on Twitter is by checking out the people your friends are interacting with. We can assume that if many of your friends follow somebody, that person has a high likelihood of being interesting to you (or it is Ashton Kutcher). Let’s use Ruby to generate a list of people highly followed by our friends.
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The asynchronous nature of Twitter is one of its keys to success. No friend requests. Awesome.
A lot of the people I follow on Twitter have no business following me. I did’t get upset when DHH, _why, and alexalbrecht did not reciprocate interest. Why would they? They don’t know me from Adam (even though I’m waayyy cooler than that dude…).
However, sometimes it is interesting to see all the jerks people who you follow that do not follow you back. There’s probably a web application out there that does this, but who needs a web app when this is a perfectly good excuse to play with Ruby?
The twitter gem by John Nunemaker makes this task so easy it’s retarded. First, get the gem if you don’t already have it:
sudo gem install twitter
Now. The script:
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