source code for @coolbot420

tweet.py

import os

import twitter  # pip install twitter

def post_tweet(text):
    assert len(text) <= 140, 'tweet is too long'
    auth = twitter.OAuth(os.environ['TWITTER_USER_TOKEN'],
                         os.environ['TWITTER_USER_SECRET'],
                         os.environ['TWITTER_API_KEY'],
                         os.environ['TWITTER_API_SECRET'])
    t = twitter.Twitter(auth=auth)
    return t.statuses.update(status=text, trim_user=True)

weed.py

import codecs
import sys
from glob import glob
from random import choice, randint, random

from tweet import post_tweet

PATTERN = "%(hour)s:%(minute)s %(verb)s %(noun)s %(every_day)s"
WHENEVER = (
    'every day',
    'every week',
    'every fortnight',
    'whenever',
    'right now',
)

class Weed():

    def __init__(self):
        verbs = set()
        with codecs.open('verbs.txt', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
            for line in fp:
                verbs.add(line.strip())

        nouns = set()
        for fn in glob('nouns/*.txt'):
            with codecs.open(fn, encoding='utf-8') as fp:
                for line in fp:
                    nouns.add(line.strip())

        self.verbs = tuple(verbs)
        self.nouns = tuple(nouns)

    def generate(self):
        strings = {
            'hour': randint(1, 12),
            'minute': '%02d' % randint(0, 59),
            'verb': choice(self.verbs),
            'noun': choice(self.nouns),
            'every_day': 'every day' if random() < 0.95 else choice(WHENEVER)
        }
        return (PATTERN % strings).upper()

def main():
    weed = Weed()
    if 'tweet' in sys.argv:
        post_tweet(weed.generate())
    else:
        for _ in range(10):
            print weed.generate()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(main())