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Trolling twitter for 2-letter handles
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gistfile1.rb
require 'httparty'
include HTTParty
('aa'..'zz').select { |r|
sleep 0.20
puts "trying #{r}"
self.class.head("https://twitter.com/#{r}").code == 404
}
# => ['me', 'oh']
# Sadly, 'me' and 'oh' both return 404s, but aren't available. Too bad. I would have enjoyed either one.
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