Tweet updates in your terminal

.bash_profile

TWEET_FEED="/tmp/tweets"
TWEET_FEED_PIDFILE="/tmp/tweets.pid"

checkTweetsFetcher () {
	TWEET_FEED_PID="$(cat ${TWEET_FEED_PIDFILE} 2> /dev/null)"

	if
		! kill -0 "${TWEET_FEED_PID}" 2> /dev/null
	then
		echo -n "Starting tweet feed check... " | green | bold

		rm -rf ${TWEET_FEED}
		touch ${TWEET_FEED}

		node ~/Sources/tweets.js \
			nodejs \
			ansible \
			&> ${TWEET_FEED} &

		echo "${!}" > ${TWEET_FEED_PIDFILE}
		echo 'Started!' | green | bold
	fi
}

checkTweets () {
	checkTweetsFetcher
	cat ${TWEET_FEED}
	echo -n "" > ${TWEET_FEED}
}

checkTweetsFetcher

tweets.js

require('colors');

var Twitter = require('node-tweet-stream')
var t = new Twitter({
	consumer_key: 'asdf',
	consumer_secret: 'asf',
	token: 'asfd',
	token_secret: 'adf'
});

t.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
	if (tweet.text.indexOf('RT ') === 0) {
		return;
	}
	
	var url = 'https://www.twitter.com/' + tweet.user.screen_name + '/status/' + tweet.id;

	console.log(
			tweet.created_at.yellow.bold,
			('@' + tweet.user.screen_name).magenta, tweet.text.cyan)
	console.log(
			url.grey
	)

	console.log('')
})

t.on('error', function (err) {
	  console.log('Tweet feed had an error!')
})

for (var i = 2; i < process.argv.length; i++) {
	var tag = process.argv[i]
	t.track(tag)
}