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A Twitter gibberish bot written in PHP. Currently tweeting live at https://twitter.com/sort_of_face
https://github.com/smitelli/sort_of_face

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A Twitter gibberish bot written in PHP. Currently tweeting live at https://twitter.com/sort_of_face

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sort\_of\_face
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A Twitter Gibberish Bot

by [Scott Smitelli](mailto:scott@smitelli.com)

Installation and Requirements
-----------------------------

sort\_of\_face is developed and tested on PHP 5.3 machines. I am almost positive
it will not run on 5.2 or lower. I never tested it on anything higher, either.
The `curl` extension is required for the various things that do HTTP requests,
and the `mbstring` extension is required because of some JavaScript scraping
shenanigans.

### To install:

1. Dump all the files somewhere. It really doesn't matter where.

2. `cp config.ini-sample config.ini`

3. Edit `config.ini` to suit your fancy. You'll have to put your own Twitter
OAuth keys in there, unless you don't want any tweeting to take place.

4. `./sort_of_face.sh`

That's it. The shell script is designed to never output anything, so you can add
it in a cron job without worrying about spamming root's inbox with junk. A file
called `debug.log` will be created (and appended) by the shell script, which can
tell you more than you ever cared to know about how the gibberish is built.

Acknowledgements
----------------

This package includes Abraham Williams' `twitteroauth` library.

Doesn't This Violate YouTube's Terms Of Service?
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It most certainly does.