Realtime Twitter Bot

A realtime bot for twitter

Gem dependencies:

• xmpp4r/simple
• twitter
• simple-daemon

Using the bot

Place a file in your $HOME: bot.yml with the format:

twitter_user: "account"
twitter_pass: "password"
jabber_acct: "jabber user ([email protected] works fine)"
jabber_pass: "jabber/gmail password"

Registering the jabber account with twitter

DO NOT SKIP THIS

• visit http://twitter.com/devices
• add your jabber account
• use a jabber client (iChat, adium, etc), sign in to the account and verify the code twitter gives you
• if you'd like to handle direct messages, ask al3x to turn on autofollow

Contributors

• Erik Kastner <[email protected]>