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Thank New Twitter Followers With AppleScript

Chris
Written by Chris
On December 09, 2008 0 Comments
Categories: Apple, Featured, Social Networks, Twitter

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I do like politeness, whether it is a bank teller, the window cleaner or strangers in the street as well as people who you may never physically meet but know via the Internet.

After using twollow.com for a short while I began to get thank you messages from some of the Twitter users that I had automatically started to follow. I thought that this was a nice touch, a little politeness means a lot, so I decided to start thanking my new followers.

The trouble was that I did not notice when I had new followers on Twitter. Occasionally I would notice an increase in the number of followers via my Twitter page, but I rarely visit my Twitter page.

However, each time you get a new follower on Twitter an email is sent telling you who it is. The only problem these emails were all too often overlooked when scanning my inbox. With this in mind I thought of simply creating a mail new rule so I would begin to notice when new followers subscribed to my twitterings and could send a quick thank you tweet.

Around lunchtime today I thought that an automatic tweet to thank new Twitter subscribers was the way forward. I think I must have been inspired when I set up Quicksilver to send tweets again, so that was the first place I looked for useful snippets of AppleScript.

Armed with the knowledge that Twitter sent email with each new follower and how to actually send a tweet using AppleScript I just needed to bring the two together.

With a little AppleScript jiggery-pokery I have managed to automate thank you tweets to new followers. I added a little random variety just for good measure.  Here’s the how to bit — enjoy.

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