I’ve been hanging out at Starbucks a lot more lately in an effort to beat the heat (they’ve all got great A/C). I live on the top floor of my Seattle apartment building and the heat there is just KILLER lately. If you didn’t know, it’s been a little hot in Seattle (for a Seattle native anyway).

Anyway, I ran a speedtest on SpeakEasy.net and got the following results:

first run

second run

Pretty sweet results.  Definitely not bad for a phone…

You’ll also be able to follow all of these users at once by downloading this ruby script (originally provided for the iPhone developer Twitter list by David Clement – thanks David!) and running it using the following instructions (feel free to skip steps 2 through 5 if you know you already have the updated Ruby version, twitter gem, and google spreadsheet gem):

1. Open Terminal
2. Update Ruby by typing: gem update --system
3. Install the Twitter gem: sudo gem install Twitter
4. Add the google spreadsheet gem source location: gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
5. Install the google spreadsheet gem: sudo gem install gimite-google-spreadsheet-ruby
6. Open up the .rb file you downloaded from here in TextEdit
7. Enter your google and twitter usernames and passwords (it’s safe, look at the code!)
8. Save the file!
9. In Terminal, navigate to the .rb file you downloaded from here and type: ruby follow_wpf_sl_devs.rb

Let me know if you have any questions. Happy tweeting!  Special thanks to the original iPhone developer twitter list and David Clement for the ruby script.

You can get the ruby script by downloading it from github: http://is.gd/hmiK.  This script was created by David Clements (thanks!).  He also posted it on his blog.  To run the ruby script you need to make sure you have the google spreadsheet gem and the twitter gem installed.  You’ll also want to make sure your ruby installation is up to date.  If you have a mac you can follow my simple instructions:

1. Open Terminal
2. Update Ruby by typing: gem update --system
3. Install the Twitter gem: sudo gem install Twitter
4. Add the google spreadsheet gem source location: gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
5. Install the google spreadsheet gem: sudo gem install gimite-google-spreadsheet-ruby
6. Open up the .rb file you downloaded from http://is.gd/hmiK in TextEdit
7. Enter your google and twitter usernames and passwords (it’s safe, look at the code!)
8. Save the file!
9. In Terminal, navigate to the .rb file you downloaded from github and type: ruby follow_iphone_devs.rb

In the terminal window you should see all of the users getting added.  The follow_iphone_devs.rb file has comments at the top that you should change the code from 1..1000 to be something like 1..10 and do a few every minutes (1..10, 11..20,21..30).  That way Twitter won’t get mad.  I did 50 at a time and it seemed to be just fine.  (Also note that due to the comments at the top of the spreadsheet, the actual results don’t start until line 6, not 1).

Enjoy!