SITE_Twitterbot

This is a tutorial for the SITE group’s 11/6 meeting at the University of Akron. This bot is meant to:

1. Follow everyone following you.

2. Favorite and Retweet a Tweet based on keywords.

3. Reply to a user based on a keyword.

4. Tweet portions of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

5. THINGS YOU NEED: Python 3.6 https://www.python.org/downloads/

6. A text editor such as Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Atom, Notepad++, etc.

7. Packages needed (not needed to download before): Tweepy

8. Create your twitter account Go to https://www.twitter.com Sign up for an account Go to: https://apps.twitter.com/ Press ‘Apply for a developer account’ Next, press ‘associate your current twitter @username’ Select ‘I am requesting access for my own personal use’. Name the project ‘SITE twitterbot’ or whatever else Select ‘United States’ as primary country’

9. Use case

   Student project / learning to code

   Chatbot and automation

   Has to be 300 characters. Type whatever you want.

   1. Follow everyone following you, favorite and retweet a tweet based on keywords, and reply to a user based on a keyword search. It will also tweet portions of Gutenberg press books.

   2: We do not indent to analyze tweets or users, but simply interact with them.

   3: It involves retweeting, favoriting, and interacting with tweets based on keywords searches.

   4: The tutorial is of free use on github.com and will be shared publicly.

   ‘No’ for ‘Will your product, service, or analysis make Twitter content or derived information available to a government entity?’

   Accept TOS.

   Submit Application.

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