aakashtyg / fun

A Google Chrome extension to follow and unfollow people with a single click, on Twitter

Fun (Beta)

A Google Chrome extension to follow and unfollow people with a single click, on Twitter. Get it now on Google Chrome Store.

NOTE: It is advised not to follow more than 200-300 people a day as twitter blocks a user (for a day or asks for phone verification) for using automated scripts.

Table of contents

• How it works
• Demo
• Quick start
• Change log
• Contributing
• Others

How it works

• Using this extension you can follow and unfollow people. This extension have 3 buttons: FOLLOW, UNFOLLOW and UNFOLLOW ALL. Their functions are:

  • FOLLOW Button: Follows a specific number of users (this number is given by the user).
  • UNFOLLOW Button: Unfollows only those people who follows you.
  • UNFOLLOW ALL Button: Unfollows all the people in your following list.

• Install the chrome extension from the Google Chrome Store.

• Visit twitter.

• Using FOLLOW:

  • Go to any person's profile page (make sure the URL is https://twitter.com/someTwitterHandle/followers).
  • Click on Followers tab on their page.
  • Now click on the extension.
  • A pop up will appear. Enter the number of users you want to follow (this number should be less than 1000 and also less than the number of followers that person have).
  • Now click the FOLLOW button.
  • Wait for a few seconds.
  • Great, you have followed the specified number of people with a single click!

• Using UNFOLLOW:

  • Go to your profile page.
  • Click on Following tab.(make sure the URL is https://twitter.com/following after clicking).
  • Now click on the extension.
  • A pop up will appear. Click on the UNFOLLOW button.
  • Wait for a few seconds.
  • Great, you have now unfollowed those people who follow you!

• Using UNFOLLOW ALL:

  • Go to your profile page.
  • Click on Following tab (make sure the URL is https://twitter.com/following after clicking).
  • Now click on the extension.
  • A pop up will appear. Click on the UNFOLLOW ALL button.
  • Wait for a few seconds.
  • Great, you have now unfollowed all the people you used to follow!

• NOTE: If the buttons does not work, reload the page. And make sure that you wait for the page to load before clicking any buttons.

Demo

Quick start

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/aakash-cr7/fun.git.
• Open Google Chrome.
• Type chrome://extensions/ in your browser's address bar.
• Check the "Developer mode" checkbox.
• Click on the "Load unpacked extension" button and locate the fun folder, you just cloned.
• You are all set! Fun's icon will now appear beside the address bar in the browser.

Change log

• **v1.0.0: 23 June 2016 ** : Beta packaged launched.
• **v1.0.2: 29 June 2016 ** : Unfollow functionality removed. Currently supports only Follow feature.
• Unpublished: 7 July (Latest) : Fix bug before relaunch.

Contributing

• I'd love for people to get involved in the development of this extension, so please do create issues and pull requests.

Others

• Checkout my Facebook extension to invite all your Facebook friends with a single click here.

fun's Issues

New Feature

Unfollow those people who doesn't follow back. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34588623/how-to-unfollow-twitter-followers-the-dont-follow-back-twitter

Find an alternative to setInterval()

Currently using setInterval() to scroll the window. This is a hacky. Find an alternative.