I manage multiple Twitter accounts. At some point, I will need to retire one; let’s call that Account A.
Is there a tool which will allow me, with ease, to make my Account B follow all the people currently followed by Account A?
Some people may find it useful, too, to be able to create a new account and have it follow all the people followed by an existing account which they or a third party own.
If there isn’t such a tool, would somebody care to make one?
Any such tool would need to deal with any duplicates (i.e. people already followed by Account B); and perhaps any limits set by Twitter on the number of follows made in a short period.
Just to clarify, you want B to follow all the people which A follows?
That’s possible. It’s not possible to move all the people who follow A to then follow B (well, you could send them a DM, but there’s no way to make them change).
On a simple level, you could view all of A’s friends and then click on each and then follow them.
Automating wouldn’t be too hard – but there are API limits (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting) of around 350 an hour. So if you had more than that, you’d need to batch the requests.
Yes; your clarification is correct, and I do want automation, not a manual process.
Bonus points if the newly-followed accounts can also be added to a (Twitter) list.
I just started a petition in Change.org to ask Twitter to enable the merging accounts feature.
Please, sign the petition as well!
https://www.change.org/p/twitter-inc-twitter-let-us-merge-accounts