Twintrest uses Twitter's search-and-match API calls to subscribe to a hashtag. Every time that hashtag appears in the firehose feed, a chaser light runs up the Holiday.
The first time you run Twintrest it will ask you to authenticate against the application - this may require some cutting-and-pasting from the command line into a browser, and back into the command line.
Usage is as follows:
python twintrest.py hashtag ip-address-of-holiday
Twintrest uses the SecretAPI for Holiday so it's quite speedy in its animations.
Mark Pesce
March 2014