A brief plug for my friend's command line tool TTYtter: <a href="http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/" rel="nofollow">http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/</a><p>super-crazy powerful, has an interactive mode, is scriptable, etc, etc...<p>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 add/drop from a list. Why can't I just type a list of names??
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:<p><a href="https://github.com/termtter/termtter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/termtter/termtter</a><p>Also:<p><a href="https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake</a>
> Unfollow everyone you follow who doesn't follow you back<p>> t leaders | xargs t unfollow<p>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.<p>To be clear, I don't support people trying to do this in the first place, but it's a clever hack nonetheless.
Slightly OT, a little power user tip for people using twitter.com is hit "?" and you'll see there's actually a ton of keyboard shortcuts in there. Much more than j and k for navigation.
I've been using this for a while. This lets you effectively search your historic tweets which for me is a killer feature.<p>Sometimes I think of things I'd like to do with Twitter but I don't do them because it would require writing some custom script. Using t many of these ideas are easy to just do quickly from the command line.
Earthquake is my favorite terminal based twitter client with streaming API support. Made with ruby. To tweet it is simply "⚡ Hello World!". <a href="https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jugyo/earthquake</a>
Does anyone remember mICQ, the command-line ICQ client? Man, it was <i>awesome</i>.<p>[0] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/micq" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/micq</a>
I wrote a similar but far more simple script in Python to follow all those who follow you and unfollow those who
unfollow you. Take a look if your interested: <a href="http://forrst.com/posts/Keep_your_twitter_followers_and_friends_in_sync-0uU" rel="nofollow">http://forrst.com/posts/Keep_your_twitter_followers_and_frie...</a>
Not as powerful, but written in pure C: bti <a href="https://github.com/gregkh/bti" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gregkh/bti</a><p>Does the job as a simple Twitter client.
The relationship terminology looks neat, but the ASCII table looks pretty messed up for me.<p>Maybe an HTML <table> tag is the right tool for the job here.
So if someone follows me, and I don't follow them back, I become their leader? /me unfollows everyone<p>on a serious note: Leaders? too cool for school?