My Smashing Widgets

twitter_user.rb

require 'twitter'
#### Get your twitter keys & secrets:
#### https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/tokens-devtwittercom
twitter = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
  config.consumer_key = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY'
  config.consumer_secret = 'YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET'
  config.oauth_token = 'YOUR_OAUTH_TOKEN'
  config.oauth_token_secret = 'YOUR_OAUTH_SECRET'
end


SCHEDULER.every '10m', :first_in => 0 do |job|
  user = twitter.user('itsphin')
  begin
    tweets = user.tweets_count
    followers = user.followers_count

    send_event('twitter_user_followers', current: followers)
    send_event('twitter_user_tweets', current: tweets)
  end
end