I Built a Twitter Bot
I make the occasional joke on Twitter about making a Twitter Bot. I recently saw a tweet from The Practical Developer (ironically, that’s probably a bot itself… and I saw a retweet of the original tweet on January 22, 2017):
How I Created Two Twitter Bots
{ author: @RabbiGreenberg }https://t.co/mnKS4WgzIK— DEV Community (@ThePracticalDev) November 6, 2017
The code is pretty easy, particularly if you don’t do the same bot the author did. I made it pretty simple – instead of retweeting and quoting tweets, I’d just tweet a random number:
Simple. It tweets every 10 minutes with a random number. Sometime I will do more. I’m just not sure what yet.
