Leon,

A script that "unfollow people who do not follow back" is very much against
the terms of use of the twitter API.  You cannot automate follow - unfolow.
  Great idea but it won't work with twitter.   :-((

Jan

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Leon Meijer <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi Jan,
>
> I'm having the same problem here, now I'm coding some script to unfollow
> people who do not follow back, for this I have to execute the users/show
> call to get the screen_name (pitty that /friends/ids and followers/ids
> doesn't return the user info...) and after 350 calls or so the rate limit is
> reached while the API documentation says that there is no rate limit (only 1
> call per request or something).
>
> So my questions are:
> - Where can I see the whitelist status?
> - Why is the users/show rate limited?
>
> Regards,
>
> Leon
>
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> *From:* jparicka [mailto:[email protected]]
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> *Sent:* Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:29:36 +0100
> *Subject:* [twitter-dev] Twitter whitelisting question
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get my app whitelisted on twitter. For months.
>
> Is twitter still whitelisting at all? It's becoming sort of a road
> block for us...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jan
>
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