Simple node.js server to stream Twitter 'Spritzer' level stream to client browser

twitter.js

global.server = require('http').createServer(function(request, response) {
  global.twitterFeed = require('https').get({
    auth: 'username:password',
    host: 'stream.twitter.com',
    path: '/1/statuses/sample.json',
  }, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf8');
    response.writeHead(200, 'text/plain');
    res.on('data', function(chunk) {
      response.write(chunk);
    });
  });
}).listen(8080);