So for now I have scrapped the original #monsterattack script for now, it's something I'll probably come back to in a day or two. It looks like I'll have to look at a couple technical issues. I really like the idea of having something search for a tag, parse it and send a message. I'll get back to it eventually.

Instead I've created something quick with a little help from this post. I made a few changes like limiting the amount of text a person can add to 50 characters and creating a second text box for a username. After filling in both boxes you click send and the user gets a very special message from the MonsterAttack account.

I realize there are a few things that need to be fixed with this page because the spamming possibilities are endless but for now she's good.

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I spent last night sitting on my couch trying to create a fun little twitter bot but I'm not completely done yet. The basic idea is someone tweets "summon #monsterattack @twitteruser" and the bot selects it's target. Right now it just selects it's first target so your tweet has to be at the top of the list to be selected.

The code is a modified version of what the Hak5 Guys were working on a couple weeks ago. I've taken that same basic code and tweaked it a little bit and instead of something happening on a screen it's parsing the string and sending a message from @monsterattack to the victim.

The next step is to set up a cron job on my server to access the page every minute or two but I'm running into a couple issues. I'll be sure to update whenever it is completely up and running.