function get_file($file, $savefile)
{
    $out = fopen($savefile, 'wb');
    if ($out == FALSE){
      print "Error opening file<br>";
      exit;
    }
 
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, $out);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $file);
    curl_exec($ch);
    echo curl_error ( $ch);
    curl_close($ch);
}
 

 
public function createList($listname='', $username='', $password=''){
if (!empty($listname) && !empty($username) && !empty($password)){
$url = 'http://api.twitter.com/1/'.$username.'/lists.xml';
$curl_handle = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, "$url");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "name=$listname");
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.":".$password);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);
   }
}
 

Over the past 2 months, and for the next little while I have been working on a project with a team. The site is Twitter based and its purpose is to give you free Twitter followers.

The front end is simple, complete the three steps: Login, choose a Tweet, and send. Each Tweet you send will score you 100 followers. You can do this up to 10 times. After this time, you can still Tweet to enter the lottery. Each Tweet gives you one entry into the lottery, you can join once per hour. There are 6 prizes given out daily, with the top prize being 500 followers!

The back end is not so simple looking as the front end. Since this is a programming site I will go into some detail of how the core works, but I can not provide any code examples.

When you request for your followers, you are added to a job quene. This script is load balanced and there are 3 servers that check the quene. If they see a new job to process, and the job is 5 minutes old it will take it and mark it as being in process. When the job runs, it will validate that you have the Tweet still on your Twitter page. If not, it will send you an @reply notifying you. (I will post up a guide on Tweeting through PHP real soon - I was sure I had already done so, but apparently not)

It would then cycle through our accounts and follow you, ensuring that you get the exact number of followers you deserve. If while following you our system detects any of our accounts as being inactive, we will credit everybody who that account followed. This way you are guaranteed the right number of followers, and wont suffer a loss.

Our servers also run a validation script to clean up the dead accounts from our database, this is run while there are no following jobs active. See Verifying Twitter Credentials In PHP.

Well thats all for now. So why dont you go ahead and Get Twitter followers.

http://TweetLarge.com

Now for those who were worried about joining it because it required storing your password, there is no need to worry.

Everyone can join, as long as you have atleast 100 followers! Join now:
http://MassTweetLottery.com

I use my function from this post: Verifying Twitter Credentials using fsock

See the full article for more!

 
<?php
$emailaddress = 'youremail@domain.com';
public function verifyCredentials($username, $password){
 
$out="GET http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml HTTP/1.1\r\n"
  ."Host: twitter.com\r\n"
  ."Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode ($username.":".$password)."\r\n"
  ."Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
  ."Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
 
$fp = fsockopen ('twitter.com', 80);
fwrite ($fp, $out);
$buf = fread($fp, 1024);
fclose ($fp);
 $pos = strpos($buf,'Could not');
  if ($pos === false){
  return 1;
}else{
  return 0;
    }
}
 
$u[0] = 'Twitteruser1';
$p[0] = 'twitterpass1';
$u[1] = 'Twitteruser2';
$p[1] = 'twitterpass2'';
$errors = 0;
$total = count($u);
for ($i = 0; $i<$total; $i++){
$TwitterValid = new TwitterValid($u[$i],$p[$i]);
$validation = verifyCredentials($u[$i],$p[$i]);
if ($validation == 0){
$v[$i] = 'INVALID';
$errors = 1;
}else{
$v[$i] = 'VALID';
}
}
if ($errors == 1){
for ($i = 0; $i<$total; $i++){
	$summary = $summary. "$u[$i] - $v[$i]\n";
}
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
$headers = 'From: Validation@'.preg_replace('#^www\.#', '', strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']))  . "\n";
$headers .= "Content-Type: text/plain\n";
$mail_Subject = "Twitter Accounts - Invalid!";
$mail_Body = "At least one account showed up with an invalid password!
Summary:
$summary
";
mail($emailaddress, $mail_Subject, $mail_Body,$headers);
}
 

So basically, you would add an aditional
$u[0] = 'Twitteruser1';
$p[0] = 'twitterpass1';
For each account, obviously incrementing the array size.

I use cronjobs each hour to run this script and it emails me only if any of the accounts appear invalid.

I have provided a simple function in PHP using fsocks, which will work on 99.99% of servers. The current available methods require cURL, which not all servers support. Read the full article for the function and usage!

Provided below is the function to verify.

 
public function verifyCredentials($username, $password){
 
$out="GET http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml HTTP/1.1\r\n"
  ."Host: twitter.com\r\n"
  ."Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode ($username.":".$password)."\r\n"
  ."Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
  ."Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
 
$fp = fsockopen ('twitter.com', 80);
fwrite ($fp, $out);
$buf = fread($fp, 1024);
fclose ($fp);
 $pos = strpos($buf,'Could not');
  if ($pos === false){
  return 1;
}else{
  return 0;
    }
}
 

It returns 1 if valid, 0 if invalid.
You can do a simple check like this:

 
$twitterusername = 'Myusername';
$twitterpassword = 'mypass123';
if (verifyCredentials($twitterusername,$twitterpassword) == 0){
echo 'INVALID LOGIN DETAILS!';
}else{
echo 'VALID!';
}
 

Any questions/problems? Just ask.

RevTwt is a service that posts advertisements on your Twitter accounts that makes you money when people visit them. You can have up to 10 Twitter accounts added to your RevTwt account and have them set to automatically post advertisements. Sounds like a way to make easy money, dosnt it? Well, it is, but atleast 80% of your tweets must be real, as in not advertisements. So that means you will have to spend time each day to make each of your accounts look real.

What if there was a way to automatically do this by grabbing a random message said by somebody on Twitter within the past few minutes, and retweeting it. And, not only that, it will only grab the tweets on twitter that contain a TinyUrl link, it will then replace that one with a link created through RevTwts service that will contain advertisements. So, if somebody clicks the link, it will bring them to a landing page with advertisements, any of those clicks earns money to your RevTwt account, and a few seconds later they are redirected to the real link that they wanted.
Check out the full article to find out more!

Introducing the Re-RevTwt Bot!

What it does

This tool allows you to make your RevTwt.com bots FULLY automated. The rules of the site state that atleast 80% of your Tweets MUST BE REAL, meaning not advertisements. This forces you to make real posts multiple times per day on all your accounts. What if there was a way to do this automated, and make more money while doing so?

The RevTwt network has a way to shorten urls and when people go to them there are landing pages with more ads that make you money.

My tool will grab a random Tweet on Twitter, where somebody used a TinyURL link, it will split it up to grab the TinyUrl link and it will then reinsert it in place. It will retweet it through your account. So it will retweet an existing Tweet, which must be of some interest to people as they are spreading it, with your advertisements!

Why is it free?

The reason it is free is because there is a chance of my RevTwt advertising ID being used instead of yours. There is a 1/3 (subject to change) chance that my ads will be placed in instead. That still leaves all of you with the priority and having a higher chance....and hey, its  better than still updating it manually.

Also, if you like you can pay just $8 and get a private ID that you pass to the url and it will ALWAYS use your publisher information, to maximize the profits.

Usage:

http://www.TwooTwoo.com/rerevtwt/index.php?u=TWITTERUSERNAME&p=TWITTERPASSWORD&ru=REVTWTUSER&rk=REVTWTKEY

So you pass the following information to index.php:
u - Twitter username
p - Twitter Password
ru - RevTwt user ID
rk - RevTwt user key

Just login to your RevTwt account, click ShortURL then on the right side click the api and apply to get your key (you get it instantly) This can be done automated through CronJobs or Windows task scheduler.

Example:

If my twitter username was Bncapps and my password was 12345
And then I applied anf got my userid, being 18595 and my user key, lets say mykey444

This is how the url would look:

http://www.TwooTwoo.com/rerevtwt/index.php?u=bncapps&p=12345&ru=18595&rk=mykey444

So you can simply set up a cronjob to call this, lets say once every 3 hours or so. Spamming it will only get your RevTwt account banned!
Cron job example:

curl "http://www.TwooTwoo.com/rerevtwt/index.php?u=bncapps&p=12345&ru=18595&rk=mykey444"
No account information is stored on the server at all.

This service is active and free. For only $8, you can upgrade and get a special code that will allow you to use this service, with your advertisements being shown 100% of the time. If you are interested, just contact me.

If you have any questions relating to the usage of this, just ask.

The API resolves around the php function file_get_contents, which was previously used here: Website parsing for specific data.

Although all the instructions for making use of the API can be found on the developers page, I will go over it in more detail here.

These functions are currently for PHP only, but they will be moved to other programming languages soon. Or you can learn how to Download the contents of a website in Java and try to build an API in Java for yourself!

More in the full article...

To start, here is the function:

 
function createRedirect($url,$short='',$proxified='')
	{
		$url = str_replace('&','(*)',$url);
		$shorturl= file_get_contents('http://tinyby.com/api.php?u='.$url.'&s='.$short.'&p='.$proxified);
		return $shorturl;
	}
 

api.php on my server recognizes not to do anything if it recieves nothing, or a blank string for $short or $proxified.

To tell the URL to become proxified, you can pass that parameter a '1', 'yes' or a 'true'.

One of the first lines within the function is this:

 
$url = str_replace('&','(*)',$url);
 

What this does is convert all the & symbols within the link we are passing to a special symbol we know will never appear in the url. Then, on the server side, the symbol is replaced back with & symbols. Without this, the shortened URLS will be truncated at the &.

Through doing file_get_contents with the appropriate parameters, the server will simply print out the URL. There will be no formatting on the page, just plain text, allowing it to return just the shortened url.

Usage of this function is as easy as copying it within your php code, and doing something similar to the following:

 
$mynewlink = createRedirect('http://BlindingProxy.com','blinding');
echo $mynewlink;
 

As you can see, that will create a redirect to BlindingProxy.com with the short url blinding. If the short url is taken, a random one will be generated and returned.
Below are some of the errors that can be returned from the server

Errors:

URL can not exceed 2000 characters! --> Also self explanitory


The last function simply returns the full url from the shortened one.

 
	function resolveRedirect($url)
	{
		$resolvedurl= file_get_contents('http://tinyby.com/apiget.php?u='.$url);
		return $resolvedurl;
	}
 

All it needs is the one parameter and it will return the full url.

The api will be extended later on to be able to see if a url is proxified or not, as well as seeing traffic stats for links and whatever other new features are released.

Tinyby.com - Proxified url redirection

Questions? Comments? Ask below!