transfer follow-ings from 1 account to another

readme.md

i reached the point where I was following > 700 people on twitter. it was a bit much. i knew that maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of them were twitter bots, so i decided to "move" those followings to another account. that way my main twitter would be people and brands, and the other twitter would just follow bots for me (and maybe assemble updates on popular bot tweets).

TO RUN THIS SCRIPT:

• get API keys for both the account that is following the people adn the account that you want to transfer the followings to
• npm install twit
• node bot.js
• on the old account, when you unfollow someone the new account should auto follow them!
• be careful of API limits. I did this in batches of about 75 with web surfing breaks in between and I was fine. you can't follow > 2,000 accounts unless you have > 2k followers tho (or something).

enjoy!

bot.js

var config = require('./config')
var Twit = require('twit')
var OldAccount = new Twit({
  "consumer_key": "SPIDERS",
  "consumer_secret": "SPIDERS",
  "access_token": "SPIDERS-SPIDERS",
  "access_token_secret": "SPIDERS"
})

var NewBot = new Twit({
  "consumer_key": "SPIDERS",
  "consumer_secret": "SPIDERS",
  "access_token": "SPIDERS-SPIDERS",
  "access_token_secret": "SPIDERS"
})

var stream = OldAccount.stream('user')

stream.on('user_event', function (event) {
  console.log("AN EVENT")
  if (event.event == 'unfollow') {
    console.log(event.target.id_str)
    NewBot.post('friendships/create', {user_id: event.target.id_str}, function(e,d,r){
      if(!e) process.stdout.write('=>')
    })
  }
})