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moved dictionaries to a seperate repo
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To avoid rate limiting, this script does __not__ use the Twitter REST API, it instead queries for the presumed profile's status code. As a result it generates false-positives on reserved account names.


## Usage

### brute.js

The main script, brute.js takes multiple dictionaries as arguments.

Available handles go to a file called ```available```.
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brute.js responds to ```SIGUSR1``` with the current number of handles processed.


### generate.js

The other script, generate.js generates all permutations of the alphebet up to k characters.

Takes some number k and the output file.
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_note that this is O(n^k) runtime_


### brute_names.js

A name generation script was further added by [FlavFS](https://github.com/FlavSF). It requires a ```first.csv``` and ```last.csv``` to be in the imediate directory.

## Dictionaries

I've pushed the dictionaries that I've been using to a seperate repo called [Twitter-Brute-Force-Dictionaries](https://github.com/dpeticol/Twitter-Brute-Force-Dictionaries)


## Results

In case you're interested, here are some results.
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