How would I automatically DM to a person once theyve followed me?

[RTuosto]

Trying to automate this feature.

Something like how TweetLater has where when a user follows me it
automatically sends them a direct message to welcome them as my friend.

[Abraham Williams]

A) parse the new follower emails. The FAQ has info about that.
B) call status/followers and the newest ones will be at the top of the list.

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[Ryan Tuosto]

Ok, but if I'm writing this as a service, I don't have access to other people's emails.

[Abraham Williams]

Then you use option b.

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On May 18, 2009 6:21 PM, "Ryan Tuosto" <ryant...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, but if I'm writing this as a service, I don't have access to other people's emails.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Abraham Williams <4br...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A) parse the new ...

[Ryan Tuosto]

What is the best way to do this in real time?

[Abraham Williams]

You can call it as often as you want. Just make sure you read the rate limiting docs on the api wiki.

[Swaroop]

Email is your only real time option here.

On May 19, 7:45 am, Ryan Tuosto <ryantuo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the best way to do this in real time?
>

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Then you use option b.
>
> > Sent from my adp1
>

> > On May 18, 2009 6:21 PM, "Ryan Tuosto" <ryantuo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Ok, but if I'm writing this as a service, I don't have access to other
> > people's emails.
>

> >  On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com>

[Ryan Tuosto]

Well how does TweetLater do it?  They don't have access to client emails.

[Abraham Williams]

Near real time is not usually a noticeable difference from real time. If the API is polled every minute no one will notice the slight delay.

[Coonay]

nice to hear the solution

On May 20, 12:09 am, Ryan Tuosto <ryantuo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well how does TweetLater do it?  They don't have access to client emails.
>

[Jesse Stay]

Please, if you do this and allow other users to use it, enable opt-out for those that don't want to receive the auto-dms.  We're going to start promoting these services that enable an opt-out for this stuff on SocialToo soon (let me know if your service provides this - TweetLater is the only one I'm aware of so far unfortunately).  It's general good practice and gives people choice.

@Jesse

[Ryan Tuosto]

How could a user opt out for this?

It only happens one time, and automatically when they follow a user back.

I'd be happy to enable such a feature, just not seeing how it can be done.

[Coonay]

twitter has a hidden spi from public use,i guess

On May 20, 5:06 pm, Ryan Tuosto <ryantuo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How could a user opt out for this?
>
> It only happens one time, and automatically when they follow a user back.
>
> I'd be happy to enable such a feature, just not seeing how it can be done.
>

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please, if you do this and allow other users to use it, enable opt-out for
> > those that don't want to receive the auto-dms.  We're going to start
> > promoting these services that enable an opt-out for this stuff on SocialToo
> > soon (let me know if your service provides this - TweetLater is the only one
> > I'm aware of so far unfortunately).  It's general good practice and gives
> > people choice.
> > @Jesse
>

[Chris Thomson]

You might want to take a look at how TweetLater does it: http://www.tweetlater.com/optout

-Chris Thomson

[Jesse Stay]

Ryan, yeah, check out how TweetLater is doing it - http://twitter.com/optout.  They require a user to follow @optout, and @optout follows the user back.  Then the user just needs to DM @optout and @optout detects the Twitter username and prevents any of their users from sending auto-dms to the users on that list.

Jesse

[Ryan Tuosto]

oh cool!