How to autofollow anyone who tweets/retweets my blog?

[KateV]

I'm not sure if here is the right place for this Q but since followerwonk is one of the SEOmoz tools, I thought I'd try.

I want to autofollow anyone who tweets or retweets specific URLs (my blog posts on a large blog).

Does anyone know how to do this? They often don't @mention me in the tweets, I just see them all on topsy.

I get 50-100 a day and at the moment have been manually going through and following all those people.

It's been a useful exercise so far to see what types of people are tweeting my stuff, but now it has got super tedious!

[Jinx14678]

I believe this could be an answer to your question -

https://ifttt.com/wtf

If this, then that automation engine that allows you to set up action based on channel triggers

[TomRayner]

My first thought too, but unfortunately IFTTT removed its Twitter integration awhile back.

You can still pull twitter RSS feeds and set up IFTTT alerts, but it wouldn't help with the automation part, as it can't access the Twitter platform any more.  Furthermore, I think Topsy provides a clean way of showing who has been mentioning your handle.

[Jinx14678]

Oh, I heard that too, but they still list it? Thought they might have added it back?

[TomRayner]

IIRC, you can still use Twitter as a trigger, but you can't read what's going on in Twitter to start something off.  Basically, you can do the "that" part, but not the "this"!