The idea behind twidle is for you to generate an awesome twitter handle. But instead of a completely random string generated by a script, you have the power over the pattern of your future twitter name.

Yes, it's pattern based

In fact, if your name is, let say, Thomas, you might want to have tom or tomtom or thomas in your twitter name. For example, if you want to find a twitter name with tom at the begining, you can try :

node twidle.js tom.

Twidle will automatically replace the . with all the letter of the alphabet and ask twitter if all the generated names are available.

Compose your own name

In facts, there are multiple different identifiers you can use to generate different kind of symbols. Here are the patterns the script understands:

• . any letter of the alphabet;
• * a vowel;
• $ a consonant;
• = a number.

For example :

node twidle.js l.m=

will try the names:

• lam0;
• lam1;
• lam2;
• [...]
• lzm9;

Well I think you get it.

Generate awesomness

Now you just need nodejs and then you can start generating awesome twitter handles.

so you can:

brew install node

or:

apt-get install nodejs

or download it form here : http://nodejs.org/download/

And finally:

node twidle.js <pattern>