FriendRetweet: Automatically Retweet Popular Tweets

FriendRetweet is a command-line PHP script that allows you to automatically retweet the most popular tweets of the people you’re following. Each time it is run, the app will scan your users home timeline and find the most popular tweet since the last time it was run. It will then retweet that tweet.

Download

Download the script here: https://github.com/Decidedly/FriendRetweet

Installation

1. Create a Twitter app for yourself at https://apps.twitter.com. Make sure you create an access token and set your permissions to read-write as well.
2. php composer install
3. cp config/example.config config/username.config
4. Configure the app as follows:
   

   Config Key	Description
   consumer_key	Your Twitter consumer key
   consumer_secret	Your Twitter consumer secret
   access_token	Your Twitter access token
   access_token_secret	Your Twitter access token secret
   twitter_user_id	Your numeric Twitter User id.
   memory_filename	A path to the file where your user’s data will be stored. These files don’t generally get very big.
   native_retweets	A value of true causes native tweets, a values of false causes us to simply tweet the same text as the source tweet.

Running the App

From the command-line, type this:

php FriendRetweet.php --config configs/username.config