How to follow a big list of Twitter users

Say you have a big list of Twitter users you want to follow (example), you can add the Twitter username one-by-one or you can leverage the power of command line on Linux. Here’s how:

1. Download the twidge binary appropriate for your Linux
2. Rename the downloaded binary file as ‘twidge’ and make it executable i.e. chmod u+x twidge
3. twidge setup    # Follow instructions given to authorize twidge application to access your Twitter account
4. Using the example above, copy and paste the list of Twitter usernames and save the file as ‘userlist’
5. cat userlist | sed ‘s/@/\n/g’ | while read U X; do if [ -z "$U" ]; then continue; fi; twidge follow $U; done

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