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9 changes: 8 additions & 1 deletion README.md
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# TwitterBot
A sample Twitter Bot that automatically tweets.
A sample Twitter Bot that will tweet whatever you type to the command line.

## How to use
Call bot.js through Node and type the message you want to tweet to the command line.
Make sure to put your message in quotes if it's more than one word.

Example: `node bot.js "I'm tweeting from the command line!"`

5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion bot.js
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var config = require('./config');
var T = new Twit(config);

// grab the tweet message from the command line arguments
var msg = process.argv[2];

//the message we want to post
var tweet_message = {
status: 'My First Tweet using #TwitterAPI and #NodeJS'
status: msg
}

//This posts our tweet
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