A milestone in server side programming here, as Simon has built a text generating machine that posts to Simon’s Twitter account! Essentially, it’s website where anyone can enter his own text for the machine to make a “poem” from using an acrostic algorithm; the machine simultaneously posts that “poem” to Simon’s Twitter.
This project falls under the topic of building an interface for Twitter. The original inspiration came from Daniel Shiffman. Simon writes:
You can try my Acrostic machine at http://acrostic-tweeter.herokuapp.com/ and it tweets to my account at https://twitter.com/simontigerh/
In this scenraio, I’m feeding in some text and a word. I’m clicking a button, to tweet the acrostic. I used node to create the server. I later put that server on heroku.
I’m also using a couple of packages:
– express – to host my interface
– socket.io – for the server and the client to talk to eachother
– twit – to tweet the acrostic
In the previous video, I got everything working, except that after I try to use heroku (by typing `heroku login` in git bash), What appeared was:
“`bash: heroku: command not found.
Later we solved this issue by using command prompt:
Simon got positive feedback on his project from Daniel Shiffman, who asked Simon to give some explanation about what the machine on the webpage and also to give a link to Simon’s Twitter:
Geeks out of the box 