monitor-twitter.js

var twitterStatus = "not-started";

function monitorTwitter() {
  puts('> monitoring twitter stream ');

  var twit = new TwitterNode({
    user: 'xxx', 
    password: 'xxx',
    track: ['somehashtag']
  });
  
  twitterStatus = "online";
  
  twit.headers['User-Agent'] = 'whatever'
  twit
    .addListener('tweet', function(tweet) {
      puts(sys.inspect(tweet))
    })
    .addListener('limit', function(limit) {
      puts("LIMIT: " + sys.inspect(limit))
    })
    .addListener('delete', function(del) {
      puts("DELETE: " + sys.inspect(del))
    })
    .addListener('close', function(resp) {
      puts("> RECEIVED CLOSE EVENT... " + resp.statusCode);
      twitterStatus="offline"
      monitorTwitter();
    })
    .stream()
}

function monitorTwitterMonitor() {
  setTimeout(function() {
    if(twitterStatus=="offline") {
      puts("> twitter feed is offline, restarting");
      monitorTwitter();
    } else {
      puts("> twitter feed is fine, carry on");
      monitorTwitterMonitor();
    }
  }, 60*1000);
}

monitorTwitter();
monitorTwitterMonitor();