.


// Set the twitter user
$user = "";
$pass = "";
// The search term to follow based on (e.g. "soccer")
$term = "";

// Get already followed
$userApiUrl = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.json";

$ch = curl_init($userApiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$apiresponse = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

$followed = array();

if ($apiresponse) {
$json = json_decode($apiresponse);
if ($json != null) {
foreach ($json as $u) {
$followed[] = $u->name;
}
}
}

$userApiUrl = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=" . $term . "&rpp=100";

$ch = curl_init($userApiUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$apiresponse = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

if ($apiresponse) {
$results = json_decode($apiresponse);
$count = 20;

if ($results != null) {

$resultsArr = $results->results;

if (is_array($resultsArr)) {

foreach ($resultsArr as $result) {

$from_user = $result->from_user;

if (!in_array($from_user,$followed)) {

$ch = curl_init("http://twitter.com/friendships/create/" . $from_user . ".json");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user.":".$pass);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"follow=true");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$apiresponse = curl_exec($ch);

if ($apiresponse) {
$response = json_decode($apiresponse);

if ($response != null) {
if (property_exists($response,"following")) {
if ($response->following === true) {
echo "Now following " . $response->screen_name . "\n";
} else {
echo "Couldn't follow " . $response->screen_name . "\n";
}
} else {
echo "Follow limit exceeded, skipped " . $from_user . "\n";
}
}

}

curl_close($ch);

} else {
echo "Already following " . $from_user . "\n";
}

}

}

}


}

?>