A Simple Twitter Bot

gistfile1.rb

## If I wanted to exclude some terms from triggering this bot, I would list them here.
## For now, we'll block URLs to keep this from being a source of spam
exclude "http://"

blacklist "mean_user, private_user"

puts "checking for replies to me"
replies do |tweet|
  
  # replace the incoming username with the handle of the user who tweeted us
  src = tweet[:text].gsub(/@echoes_bot/, tweet_user(tweet))

  # send it back!
  reply src, tweet
end