Bless you, Twitter. Blitter.

In Look Around You, episode 2 ("Water"), the narrator talks to some ants:

Thanks, ants. Thants.

and, later:

Bless you, ants. Blants.

Here's the source to my twitter bot that continues the tradition.

Getting started

To generate a database of words, I'm using the npm Twitter package to fetch a live stream of people saying "thanks". I'm using the Wink part-of-speech tagger to identify plural nouns. They're compared against the iscool checker to make sure they aren't rude words. I'm storing the words in a MongoDB database.

Run node grow_database.js to add new words to the database. Run node index.js to tweet a random word from the database every hour.

I'm still learning node.js! Let me know if you have suggestions or thoughts!