See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 15 Lines of Ruby

Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by sant0sk1 on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @09:44AM (#606867)

I wrote it more as a fun example of the stuff you can do with very little Ruby (when relying on the proper libraries).

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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by axod on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @09:48AM (#606872)

No doubt it's cool in terms of code, I was just intrigued about the whole twitter culture :)

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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by tortilla on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @09:57AM (#606883)

I think it's the dynamic of very loose relationships. And if I have to read your drivel, you better be reading mine.

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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by mattlanger on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:14AM (#606905)

This is crap.

It stops being a "fun example of the stuff you can do with very little Ruby" as soon as it performs some function with social ramifications. Code does not exist in a moral vacuum.

The fact of the matter is that people do use scripts like this to game the system, which inflates the meaningful currency with which a given community operates, ultimately devaluing and undermining that community.

Scripts like this contribute to Twitter going the way of MySpace.

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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by axod on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @11:33AM (#607019)

You seem to be under the delusion that the number of followers/following have some real meaning/value.

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Re:See Which Twitterers Don’t Follow You Back In Less Than 1... by sant0sk1 on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:16AM (#606909)

You are saying that this code is immoral? You're gonna have to back that up.

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