Annoy your Twitter followers by tweeting the lyrics to "99 Bottles of Beer".

bottles_of_beer.py

#!/usr/bin/python2

# bottles_of_beer.py
# Annoy your Twitter followers by tweeting the lyrics to "99 Bottles of Beer".
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# "THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42):
# nilsding <nilsding@nilsding.org> wrote this file. As long as you retain this
# notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day,
# and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Latest source code available at https://gist.github.com/nilsding/6719163


# Get your OAuth keys from dev.twitter.com and set the permissions to Read/Write.
# I used consumer key and secrets from TweetDeck. Mention me (@nilsding) if you want to know them.
consumer_key        = ""
consumer_secret     = ""
access_token        = ""
access_token_secret = ""

import tweepy
from time import sleep

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)
bottles = 99

while 1:
    if bottles > 2:
        text = '{0} bottles of beer on the wall, {0} bottles of beer.\nTake one down and pass it around, {1} bottles of beer on the wall.'.format(bottles, bottles - 1)
        bottles -= 1
    elif bottles > 1:
        text = '{0} bottles of beer on the wall, {0} bottles of beer.\nTake one down and pass it around, {1} bottle of beer on the wall.'.format(bottles, bottles - 1)
        bottles -= 1
    elif bottles > 0:
        text = '{0} bottle of beer on the wall, {0} bottle of beer.\nTake one down and pass it around, no more bottles of beer on the wall.'.format(bottles)
        bottles -= 1
    elif bottles == 0:
        bottles = 99
        text = 'No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer.\nGo to the store and buy some more, {0} bottles of beer on the wall.'.format(bottles)
    
    print text
    
    try:
        print api.update_status(status = text)
    except tweepy.error.TweepError, err:
        print api.update_status(status = text)

    sleep(15) # sleep time in seconds, increase or decrease it if you want to.