In an earlier post titled Using Perl to send tweets stored in a MySQL database to twitter, I showed you a way to use MySQL to store tweets, and then use Perl to automatically send your tweets to twitter.
In this post, we will look at automatically sending a “thank you” to people who retweet your tweets – and we will be using Perl and MySQL again.
Just like in the first post, you will need to register your application with twitter via apps.twitter.com, and obtain the following:
consumer_key consumer_secret access_token access_token_secret
One caveat: twitter has a rate limit on how often you may connect with your application – depending upon what you are trying to do. See …
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