by Calvin Robinson on July 27, 2009.

So I spend all my life on Twitter (according to my boss at least ) and there are certain tools that I need.

I explained in my last post how I have a separate account setup specifically for following people who I want to follow, but who don’t follow me back. I beleive Twitter should be a 2-way communication tool, but there are still people that use it as an RSS stream.

To transfer all of these people from my main account (@calvinrobinson) to my 1-way stream account (@calvinscat) I needed a tool to mass-follow ~200 people at once. Adding them individually would simply be too long.

I tried NinjaFollow, but this just wouldn’t work for me. It seems very temperamental these days – I was just receiving error after error. So I decided to just make my own.

I’ve played around with Python a little, and so I knew how simple it was, but oh my gosh… what a sexy language! With practically no experience with either Python or the Twitter API I was able to bang out an application that did exactly what I needed. The only problem was, my program required me to run the script manually each time. That’s when I had the idea of turning it into a web app. This way, other people can get some use out of it too.

Thus RogerThat was born.

At the moment it’s a really easy, if not ugly, tool for following multiple twitter accounts at once. I’ll expand it later, but right now I’m just really happy at how easy it was to get using the Twitter API. I will expand this in the next few days, I’ve got some interesting ideas ;D