https://github.com/zeke/outcasts

Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
https://github.com/zeke/outcasts

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Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zeke/outcasts
• Owner: zeke
• Created: 2012-04-04T17:02:05.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-05-25T16:49:45.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-09T14:52:35.777Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://zeke.sikelianos.com/outcasts/
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Outcasts

> Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.

Outcasts is a little ruby script that runs on heroku every ten minutes. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non)word is then looked up using the Wordnik API. If we don't have any definitions for the word, it makes the cut and ends up on a list:

[zeke.sikelianos.com/outcasts](http://zeke.sikelianos.com/outcasts/)