# rhiever/TwitterFollowBot

A Python bot that automates several actions on Twitter, such as following users and favoriting tweets.

Repository: https://github.com/rhiever/TwitterFollowBot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/twitterfollowbot
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2022-09-19T13:36:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4683, "days_push": 1444, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1333, forks 434 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:24.553353+00:00)

## What it is
A Python library that automates Twitter actions such as following users and favoriting tweets via the Twitter API. It is explicitly no longer maintained because Twitter cracks down on such bot usage.

## Use cases
- automatically follow users on twitter
- auto-favorite tweets matching a search
- build a twitter follower bot in python
- unfollow users who don't follow back
- automate twitter engagement with a script

## When to choose
- you want a code base to fork for a custom Twitter automation project
- you need a simple pip-installable Twitter bot skeleton

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool that works with the current Twitter/X API
- you cannot risk account suspension from automated following
- you need production-grade social media automation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: workflow-automation, web-scraping, developer-tools
- domain: social-media, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: twitter-bot, social-media-automation, unmaintained, automation

## Member repositories
- rhiever/TwitterFollowBot (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.553353+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:44:54.900163+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rhiever/TwitterFollowBot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:24.553353+00:00, sha d7f682180ac2)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/twitterfollowbot/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:04:03.909727+00:00, sha e75c08017cb9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.