C'Thun is a simple twitterbot that replies to specified HearthStone streamers/twitter accounts with a random maddening whisper should they mention the old Gods expansion. It is the first old God to have been named and also the first to have been revealed for the expansion, hence why I chose him.
Extra (bonus) script that will try to whisper a maddening thought to a random haunted user. Will actually tweet 1 every 4 times, but this is configurable. Currently lives inside a cronjob that fires every hour, which means it should average on 6 whispers a day.
This script also links up with a database as to not whisper the same user within a configurable timespan currently set at 24 hours. This should allow me to increase the frequency of messages without the risk of spamming users.
I was looking for a fun little weekend project and recently a friend created a twitterbot (herring-3067), which I thought looked interesting enough to fiddle around with myself.
Should it take off I'd like to connect it to a database and allow people to tweet C'Thun new users it should haunt.
C'Thun is owned by Blizzard (although I reckon C'Thun begs to differ), and part of their IP. I just thought this was a fun way to use it. :)
The profile picture I used for the twitter account is a piece by the talented Richard Wright. It was featured on the "Call of C'Thun" card from the Reign of Fire WoW TCG set.