mattbierner / i-u2764-everyone

I U+2764 Everyone

To celebrate Valentine's Day, I've decided to use Twitter to send a personal and heartfelt message of love to each and every one of my 300 million fellow creatures. But, as much as I love all of you, the prospect of actually typing out 300 million tweets was just not that appealing, so instead I taught my computer how to share love on my behalf.

This repo contains a simple Twitter bot script that builds up a database of sad, lonely, little users and, once every five minutes, picks a lucky lover for whom the bot tweets, "@USER, I ❤️ you". Each user will be loved at most once. At this rate, the bot should finish its first iteration in around 3000 years.

See it in action @_LovedArt while you still can.

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Update

Alas! banned after a mere 31 messages. But I've seen the error of my ways and created a new bot to continue spreading love to everything.

Why?

Why not? The world needs more love.

Isn't this spam?

No, the bot is designed to only contact users once. It also runs at a very low rate so as to not consume many of Twitter's resources. Nothing is being sold and there are no malicious intentions. All this bot does is post, "I ❤️ you", slowly working its way through the entire community of active Twitter users. That's it. Seriously.

I feel that this bot uses Twitter as it was intended, and improves the Twitter community by making it a more fun and random place.

Will Twitter consider this spam?

Probably. A fun little bot like this will probably get banned after a few hours, while advertisers are free to spew all sorts of shit at users. So it goes.

Anyone is free to continue the mission of @_LovedArt if it falls by banhammer. Love conquers all.

Running

To spread the love yourself, first register an application with Twitter.

The main script for the bot lives in index.js and uses Node.

$ cd i_u2764_everyone
$ npm install

Make sure to set the following environment variables using your fancy new registered Twitter application:

$ export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY="your app key"
$ export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET="your app secret"
$ export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY="your access token key"
$ export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="your access token secret"

Then just run the script, $ node index.js. A database of users that tracks who has been loved so far is saved to `data.db.

Run the script using forever, $ forever start index.js, so the love never has to stop.