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Robert on June 03, 2020

In this post, I'll be teaching you how to update a DEV post title, The Tom Scott way. YouTuber Tom Scott's latest video titled, "This Video Has X ...

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manuel • Jul 22 '20 • Edited

Hi Robert, funny idea.
I made this with my Twitter name (Manuel and the x followers) => @mnlwldr and a cronjob that run the code below every minute :)

package main

import (
    "github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda"
    "net/url"
    "strconv"
)

func initAnaconda() *anaconda.TwitterApi {
    return anaconda.NewTwitterApiWithCredentials(
        "ACCESS_TOKEN",
        "ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET",
        "CONSUMER_KEY",
        "CONSUMER_SECRET")
}

func main() {
    api := initAnaconda()
    params := url.Values{}
    me, err := api.GetSelf(params)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    followers := me.FollowersCount
    name := "YOUR_NAME and the " + strconv.FormatInt(int64(followers), 10) + " followers"
    updateParams := url.Values{}
    updateParams.Set("name", name)
    api.PostAccountUpdateProfile(updateParams)
}

Robert • Jul 22 '20

Haha looks cool!

Muhimen • Jun 4 '20

You just destroyed my next post idea!! 😢😭😢😭

Si • Jun 4 '20

Do it anyway. Maybe do it in a different language so it helps different people.

Timar • Jun 4 '20

And it's always interesting to see how the same problem is solved in different languages!

Si • Jun 4 '20

Eurgh - now I'm tempted to do it in Go.

I just don't have the time.

Robert • Jun 4 '20

Muhimen • Jun 4 '20

In that case, I am booking python for this.

Muhimen • Jun 4 '20

Here is a Go variant dev.to/napicella/this-article-has-...

Robert • Jun 4 '20

Cool!

Robert • Jun 4 '20

✌️✌️

Madza • Jun 3 '20 • Edited

First there were static easter eggs like this by Numberphile :)
Apparently, now they stepped it up :)

Robert • Jun 3 '20

Checking Numberphile now 🚀

Madza • Jun 3 '20

It's awesome and easy to get addicted if you like numbers :)

Bernard Gresola • Jun 3 '20

Trying to see if this counts.

Robert • Jun 3 '20

Welcome to DEV!

Ben Halpern • Jun 3 '20

These are fun 😄

Robert • Jun 3 '20

Indeed! 😁

Jacko • Jun 3 '20

That's cool! 👍

Robert • Jun 3 '20

Thanks!

Sanyam Jain • Jun 3 '20

Commenting just to see the count increase :)

manish srivastava • Jun 4 '20

...eeeee.....

Iain Freestone • Jun 3 '20

This is brilliant!

Robert • Jun 3 '20

Thanks!

alyatek • Jun 4 '20

Funny thing is that people will just react or comment to see the counter going up! 😂

Shravan Kumar B • Aug 5 '20

Interesting