On: T – a command-line power tool for Twitter

[malvosenior]

Favorite T hack:

  t followers --sort=since > followers.log

Keep followers.log checked into Git and track your followers/unfollowers over time.

[ahmett → malvosenior]

I have the following project for this. https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/goodbye It can DM you when someone unfollows you. But you need to host it somewhere.

[zem → malvosenior]

tempting, but i feel that tracking who unfollows me would only annoy me for no good reason.

[chimeracoder → malvosenior]

No need to use git, since you can just use diff(1) to find the unfollowers between any two dates. I've been doing this for a while with a Go program I created[0].

Unfortunately, people who change their Twitter handles (which I found surprisingly common) show up as false positives - you either need to filter these out manually or match against the user id[1].

[0] https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/twitter-follower-logger

[1] Adding that as a separate field and then calling `cut -f2` would be a quick hack, now that I think about it.

[gknoy → chimeracoder]

True, but git comes with many tools (e.g. gitk) that make it really easy to the diffs-over-time of a repo.

[ryanseys → malvosenior]

I made a thing yesterday to do just that. :)

https://github.com/ryanseys/twidiff

[D4AHNGM → ryanseys]

That's a nice simple little script. Thanks for sharing!

[misiti3780 → malvosenior]

that is a really great idea

[malvosenior → misiti3780]

Thanks!