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A twitter bot that picks users at random, useful for giveaways.

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An idea for a twitter bot

that picks users at random

I got this idea when I saw unicodeveloper's tweets about picking five twitter accounts, that indicate interest in an advanced JavaScript course, at random to gift the course to.

Syntax

Here's a list of correct syntax for such a bot, and meanings:

@PickAtRandom n replies
@PickAtRandom n likes
@PickAtRandom n retweets
@PickAtRandom n replies to [link]
@PickAtRandom n likes to [link]
@PickAtRandom n retweets to [link]

(singular expressions)

@PickAtRandom a reply
@PickAtRandom a like
@PickAtRandom a retweet

Output

When invoked with a valid command, the bot will respond to the selected tweets/users while mentioning the commander, and the tweet will include the link to the command tweet e.g.

"1. This reply is selected. cc @mykeels [link]"