Ben Vandgrift - Rubyist, Explorer, Curmudgeon

build a simple retweeter with twibot.

this requires twibot 0.1.4.

in ./config/bot.yml:

login: your_user_name
password: your_password
include_friends: true

in retweeter.rb:

require 'twibot' 

# add people who request it via direct
message do |message, params|
  twitter.friend(:add, message.sender.screen_name) if message.text =~ /^followme/
end

# retweet keyworded phrases from friends
tweet do |message, params|
  if message.text =~ /#some_phrase_or_keyword/
    post_tweet "RT:@#{message.user.screen_name} "+
    "#{message.text.gsub(/#some_phrase_or_keyword/, '')}" 
  end
end

$ nohup ruby retweeter.rb &