Why won't twitter friend adder script work?

[Subzero]

I wonder if someone can help me with this. I have not used this script for a while and last time it worked Twitter gave you the option of "new display style" or "old display style" and of course firefox was not as developed either.
Now I have greasemonkey installed the script installed and everything says its working, however when I go to someones follower page I don't see any extra options as per what it used to be... you know "Add all followers" button not there...

Any suggestions? I particularly wnat to use this as I have a specific marketing idea for local businesses and need the script to auto follow them.

[brett]

Hi there

I know it doesn't work on the new twitter style and I had to switch back to the old style to get it to work. But as you say, that no longer appears to be an option.

Hmmm... that's probably not much help

Brett

[Subzero]

It wasn't much help... your comments were as useful as a one legged man in an ass kicking competition.

[brett]

Why, thank you for that.

What I have done which is slightly more helpful is that I have brought this to the attention of Tim.

Cheers
Brett

[Tim Buchalka]

I wonder if someone can help me with this. I have not used this script for a while and last time it worked Twitter gave you the option of "new display style" or "old display style" and of course firefox was not as developed either.
Now I have greasemonkey installed the script installed and everything says its working, however when I go to someones follower page I don't see any extra options as per what it used to be... you know "Add all followers" button not there...

Any suggestions? I particularly wnat to use this as I have a specific marketing idea for local businesses and need the script to auto follow them.

Hey Subzero,

Firstly be nice to Brett he was trying to help out, no doubt you were kidding

Regarding the twitter script the problem is.. Well Twitter themselves. They have changed the rules time and time again for developers and now all scripts need to get approval. And this is not a script they would endorse. That said there are work arounds and we're trying to figure out a way to "get past the goalkeeper" so to speak so we can enable the script to work again.

This script didn't use the official data loading API code but "pretends" its a real user by allowing you to quickly follow people, etc but the danger (and a real one) is that twitter delete accounts that they consider suspect. Our testing has had a number of accounts banned, so we don't intend on releasing it until a) it works properly! but also b) we are very confident your account wont get deleted.

Sorry its probably not the news you want to hear. Stay tuned.

Regards



Tim

[Subzero]

Hi Tim,
Yes I was just kidding. I don't want to hurt Brett's feelings or appear like a smart ass. I just didn't think his comments were much help.

By the way you say you are working on this any idea of timeline??? Clicking users 1 at a time is tedious.

Regards
Subzero

[brett]

I didn't take any offence I even admitted that my answer was somewhat less than useful!

[Subzero]

Good to know, I could have said that it was as useful as a one armed wallpaper hanger, or useful as a knife in a gunfight or as useful as a ..... lol just kidding.