It will also reply to your followers with a selection of canned responses.īefore starting the clock you’ll need to set up some accounts set up if you don’t have them already. It will like and re-tweet whatever you specify. You’re going to use the twit library to build a Twitter bot. Let’s do this! How to build a Twitter Bot in 30 minutes If you have any doubts about the ethics of the bot you’re building, check out botwiki’s ethics section. So the bot can initiate the conversation, then I can carry on from where the bot left off.īearing this in mind, a bot is only as ethical as the person who programmed it. In the case of my bot, it’s usually an opener for a conversation with another person who follows me. I like the the feeling of accomplishment that comes with having saved myself some time.” One question I’m asked in job interviews quite often is “what do you get out of working with technology?” I always answer that “I like to automate repetitive tasks to save me time so I can concentrate on other stuff. It will also reply with encouragement if it detects negative sentiment (frustration) in a tweet that has the #100DaysOfCode hashtag in it. The #100DaysOfCode community challenge will congratulate you on starting the #100DaysOfCode challenge, and again when you reach specific milestones.

I personally use a bot to enhance my account by liking and re-tweeting subjects I have an interest in.

Or public service bots like the Earthquake Robot, which tweets about any earthquake greater than 5.0 on the Richter Scale as it happens.Īnd of course a robot that tweets poetry, poem.exe, along with one that will retweet your tweets that also happen to be an Accidental Haiku. Take the Twisst ISS alerts bot, which sends you a direct message whenever the international space station (ISS) will be visible at your location. Twitter bots can do a heck of a lot more than just spam trending hashtags and relentlessly follow users. UPDATE 20171102: Since this story was originally posted back in January 2017 there have been a few things that have changed with the repository on GitHub, if you are going to be following along I’d suggest using the repository README.md in conjunction with this story to save any confusion.

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