RealHellToupee – A Trump-Inspired Twitter Bot

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Hi HN! I built and shipped my First Real Project (tm) this week. It's a twitter bot that scans for new tweets mentioning Donald Trump every two minutes (http://twitter.com/realHellToupee). Inspired by the Daily Show skit "Donald Trump is White ISIS," it replaces "Trump" with "WhISIS" and "Make America Great Again!" with "Notice me, Senapi!" The code for the artwork is freely available for reuse and modification (https://github.com/the-bobo/helltoupee), along with an expanded artist statement. I hope you check it out and enjoy, and would love to hear any feedback! It was my first time shipping and deploying a project to completion, and I learned a ton. How to deploy correctly on Heroku, the necessity for an http ping process to keep my dyno alive, how to create a manifest for npm install to work properly, how to use the Twitter API...a very fun if at times stressful experience! To improve I need to update the version of node it runs with and make sure everything still works, and perhaps cache the most recent tweet to make sure I'm not duplicating it with the next call to the Streaming API since nobody likes (and Twitter rejects) reposts. Excited to hear any feedback, thanks!

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