Spreading joy and love
This is the source for my ongoing run of awesome happiness-inspiring twitter bots. They are very simple. Listen for someone to say "Good Morning" and then tweet something wonderful to them. That's it. Very easy. Since December of 2011, the HappinessBot network has tweeted happy thoughts to over 2 Million people!
You can also find out more about happiness bot by watching my lightning talk from RubyConf 2011. My talk starts at 21:45. You'll love it!
You can see what a running HappinessBot looks like at @GoodMorningToY9.
It uses my awesome tweetbot gem to listen for the phrase "Good Morning." Tweetbot gem supports adding a series of reponses that are selected at random. I've chosen a lot of motivating phrases to respond with. I've also set the frequency to 0.5%. This means that every time "Good Morning" is said on twitter, there is a 0.5 in 100 chance that HappinessBot will say something nice to you. Isn't that nice?
Yup!
I've run into some issues with encoding errors with the Faraday gem, but it appears they are fixed. I'll keep an eye on this, but, for now, we are doing awesome with languages!
Now, if you want to send me a pull request for your language, I'll add it. You can be famous for making people happy in your favorite language!
Thanks a lot to Kristof Schockaert for helping debug some UTF issues. Awesome community support!
What a great idea. You can either fork this project or start your own based on it. Feel free to add your own phrases. Please make them nice, though. Nobody likes to have mean things said to them.
HappinessBot, though, is dedicated to responding to people saying Good Morning. If you make your own, please let me know.
For more information, check out the TweetBot Gem.