Welcome to Obtweet

This is the Ruby code that powers http://twitter.com/oblique. Very simple code that you can use to post a randomly chosen message to a Twitter account, for instance from a list of your favorite quotes. You should only need to modify the .yml files and create a cron job to run the script periodically.

Update 9/26/08: Using Twitter4R gem, and moving Twitter acct info into twitter.yml file.

Update 4/20/09: Now powers a new Twitter bot at http://twitter.com/twandal, which pulls recent public tweets that contain trending terms, replaces those terms with randomly-picked ones, and re-tweets the mangled version. This functionality was pretty much hacked on w/ the minimum of consideration, but eventually I’ll devise a kind of plugin system to make it easy to add generic bots.