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URL shortening services had experienced a big push in the age of social networks rising, such as Twitter, where big urls collide with the 140 characters user input restriction.
So there was this need of magically transform URLs like this one http://raduboncea.ro/2009/04/01/twitter-autofollow-and-dm-using-python-twitter-imaplib-and-gmail/ into something like this http://tinyurl.com/cralfk.
Many would be tempted to think there is some [...]

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The script will:

connect via imap to gmail
select the imap directory TwitterFollow (you should filter twitter follow notifications and label them with TwitterFollow)
fetch the headers of all unread mails
retrieve the twitter user screen_name that is following you from the headers
attempt to create a friendship aka autofollow. If an error occurs is probably due to the fact [...]

Requirements:

a valid gmail account
label your twitter follow notifications (E.g. I use TwitterFollow)
mechanize : a stateful programmatic web browsing
libgmail : a GA reverse engineered library
python-twitter : a wrapper around the Twitter API

IMPORTANT: because Gmail does not provide an API and does not intend to do that because of the ads, hacking libgmail to fetch the threads [...]

Requirements: simplejson
The script gets the input from Ecto and prints the search results.

I recently started using Ecto as a blog editor instead of Blogo and I find it extremely useful, specially the Script feature which allows you to get the output of your scripts and paste it to the post. This feature gives you all the freedom in automates certain posts.
The Script Tool supports php, python, ruby, [...]

A perspective different than the script I posted here which required python-twitter library.
Please excuse the lack of introspection, the script should be self explanatory.

One simple way to extract those who you follow but are not following back