a dirty script to help myself unfollowing a lot of users from twitter

gistfile1.py

import twitter  # pip install python-twitter
import pickle


def main():
    # create an app an set read/write permissions. credidentials below
    api = twitter.Api(
        consumer_key='',
        consumer_secret='',
        access_token_key='',
        access_token_secret='')

    # take all id numbers of users you are following
    friend_ids = api.GetFriendIDs()
    print "You are following %d users" % len(friend_ids)

    # a whitelist to hold users you do NOT want to unfollow. with this file
    # you can quit anytime and resume later and whiltelisted users wont listed
    # again
    try:
        whitelist = pickle.load(open("whitelist.obj", "rb"))
    except Exception:
        whitelist = []

    try:
        for f in reversed(friend_ids):
            if f in whitelist:
                continue

            try:
                friend = api.GetUser(f)
            except twitter.TwitterError:
                continue
            print "==========================================================="
            print "%s - %s - %s - %s" % (friend.screen_name, friend.name,
                                         friend.description,
                                         print_status(friend.status))

            what = raw_input("ENTER to delete, S to skip, or Q to quit.")
            if what in ['q', 'Q']:
                break
            elif what in ['s', 'S']:
                whitelist.append(f)
            elif what == '':
                print "Destroyed the fucking!"
                destroyed = api.DestroyFriendship(f)
                print "%s unfollowed" % (destroyed.screen_name)
            else:
                print "Unknown command. No action taken."

    except Exception, e:
        print e
        raise
    finally:
        pickle.dump(whitelist, open("whitelist.obj", "wb"))


def print_status(status):
    if status:
        return "%s - %s" % (status.created_at, status.text)
    return "None"


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()