I’ve been working on an off now, for about 2 months, on an open-source project of mine called TwitterManager.  The system uses the well formed and excellent framework Arc90_Service Twitter API by Matt Williams for connecting to Twitter’s API.

A good background discussion as to why I have created such a web application can be found here on a great blog site by Stephen C. Rose:  http://stephencrose.wordpress.com

Essentially, this TwitterManager web application will provide online automated batch processing for follow, unfollow, block suspended, block any, and mass direct messaging.  In addition, the software is written for verbose output on all processes and error responses received.  This is coded this way in an effort to find the problems and loopholes with certain Twitter accounts that have wacked out following limits, unknown restrictions, or other weird happenings.

One very important note about TwitterManager.  This is intended to be a private single-use application for a solitary Twitter user’s account.  Hence, the reason for the rather overly cautious instructions about password protecting the web folder you uploaded it to.  Another important limitation is that TwitterManager is intended to run only one automated batch process at a time for any given user on any given domain that it is installed.  This may change later, but for now in the BETA release, it’s not doable.  Keep in mind that unless a Twitter application is approved and white listed by Twitter, your API Limit for any user/domain is roughly 150 API calls per hour.  Obviously, with this type of restriction, running this as a ’public’ application where anyone can access it and start automated batches will bring everything to a screeching halt.  This also means that you cannot run multiple instances of TwitterManager in different browsers if they reside on the same domain or use the same Twitter account credentials.

You need PHP 5+ on your web server, and should password protect the directory you upload it to in order to prevent the public from using this application on your domain.  Unzip the package file and read the instructions and readme text files.  Also, for developers, there is complete documentation and source code provided as well.  It is intended to be plug-n-play, but this is a BETA release and any issues/bugs should be directed to me at the link provided in the documentation.

http://www.rhaws.com/TwitterManager1.0.zip