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    <p>I now have a few thousand Twitter followers, and up until now I have been following them back manually. I now want to automate the process with PHP, as it can take ages to follow everyone back.</p> <p>I found a twitter library for PHP created by Abraham Williams and started to write some code. </p> <p>However, every time I run the script the number of users that I need to follow back is incorrect! Is this an error in my coding, or is this just how the Twitter API works?</p> <p>Here's my code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php require_once 'twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php'; define('CONSUMER_KEY', ''); define('CONSUMER_SECRET', ''); define('ACCESS_TOKEN', ''); define('ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET', ''); ob_start(); set_time_limit(0); function autoFollow($action){ //auth with twitter. $toa = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET); //get the last 5000 followers $followers = $toa-&gt;get('followers/ids', array('cursor' =&gt; -1)); $followerIds = array(); foreach ($followers-&gt;ids as $i =&gt; $id) { $followerIds[] = $id; } //get the last 5000 people you've followed $friends = $toa-&gt;get('friends/ids', array('cursor' =&gt; -1)); $friendIds = array(); foreach ($friends-&gt;ids as $i =&gt; $id) { $friendIds[] = $id; } if($action=="unfollow"){ //unfollow all users that aren't following back. $usersNotFollowingBackcount = 0; $usersNotFollowingBack = array(); foreach($friendIds as $id){ if(!in_array($id,$followerIds) ){ array_push($usersNotFollowingBack, $id); //unfollow the user //$toa-&gt;post('friendships/destroy', array('id' =&gt; $id)); $usersNotFollowingBackcount++; echo $usersNotFollowingBackcount.' users unfollowed so far&lt;/br&gt;'; ob_flush(); flush(); } } echo sizeof($usersNotFollowingBack).' users who weren\'t following you back have now been unfollowed!'; } if($action =="follow"){ //follow all users that you're not following back. $usersYoureNotFollowingBackcount = 0; $usersYoureNotFollowingBack = array(); foreach($followerIds as $id){ if(!in_array($id,$friendIds) ){ array_push($usersYoureNotFollowingBack, $id); //follow the user //$toa-&gt;post('friendships/create', array('id' =&gt; $id)); $usersYoureNotFollowingBackcount++; echo $usersYoureNotFollowingBackcount.' users followed back so far&lt;/br&gt;'; ob_flush(); flush(); } } echo sizeof($usersYoureNotFollowingBack).' users have been followed back!'; } } if($_GET['action']){ autoFollow($_GET['action']); ob_end_flush(); } ?&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COWhy would you want to follow so many people, that it even becomes such a chore that you have to automate it?
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    2. COThen you'll need a script to block all of the incoming tweets from the people you've followed.
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    3. CO80% of the users I follow on Twitter are friends, so I don't mind seeing their updates on my timeline :)
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