Grow Your Twitter Following Fast

With just 2 lines of code

Last week right before Christmas I made my first ever twitter account. Being a professional developer, of course, I wanted to see the code. While I can not look at the server side code, I can look at the front end code with a quick right-click view source in chrome. Here I discovered something pretty cool that has allowed me to gain my first 100 followers in about 5 minutes of work, Plus a cool new GitHub repo.

Why did I do this? The same reason most dev’s write software. To see if I could. Now I’m going to show you how to do it too! Let’s break it down.

While inspecting the code I found a nice little pattern with the classes used for the CSS front end. Using a single line of jQuery I was able to like about 50 tweets in less than a second. That line of code was:

I simply targeted the classes used for the like button and told jQuery to click it! This got me really excited and I decided to see if I could automate it even further.

Given that Twitter only loads about 20 or so tweets per-page until you scroll down, I knew I would have to scroll in order to like more stuff, and if I just did it continuously I was pretty sure twitter would ban my account. This led me to this next block of code.

This worked out perfectly. So I set it up to run overnight and went to bed. To my dismay, when I came back in the morning, Twitter had blocked the script from running and needed human verification and had only liked about 200 tweets. Sad day 😢.

Never the less, my goal had been accomplished. I technically automated the process. While very simple for a bot, It was usually fine to leave running for about 5…

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