# This script was originally created by David Clements in order to read the twitter using iPhone developers here -> http://is.gd/hlhv.  It has been modified to read the WPF and Silverlight developers list here -> http://is.gd/hBft
# plug in your google and twitter account details below
# Credit for this script goes to David Clements
# See his blog post for the original iPhone developer Twitter list here -> http://shortpath.blogspot.com/2009/01/follow-over-100-iphone-developers-on.html
# You'll need the google spreadsheet gem (http://github.com/gimite/google-spreadsheet-ruby/tree/master) and the twitter gem

# You may want to change the 1..1000 below so it only adds 10 followers at a time (every hour or so).  Twitter will like you more then
require "rubygems"
require "google_spreadsheet"
require 'twitter'

google_user = "XXXXXXX"
google_pw   = "XXXXXXXX"
twitter_user  = "XXXXXXXX"
twitter_pw    = "XXXXXXX"

puts "creating session:"

session = GoogleSpreadsheet.login(google_user, google_pw)

ws = session.spreadsheet_by_key("psloaqX-_TD6BRpcq5Bz-Qw").worksheets[0]

base =  Twitter::Base.new(twitter_user, twitter_pw)

(5..1000).each do |row|
puts "starting row"
   url = ws[row,2]
   matched_user = url.match(/http:\/\/twitter.com\/(.*)/)
   next unless matched_user
   matched_user = matched_user[1]

   puts "Attmepting to follow #{matched_user}"

   begin
      base.create_friendship(matched_user)
      puts "success"
   rescue
      puts "******* Failed  #{$!.message}"
   end
end