An open-source, community-driven Twitter bot created by Sara Torrey and Dan Torrey to support all women who code. Click here to view the Bot on Twitter.
The Women Coders Bot retweets tweets containing the following hashtags: #GirlsWhoCode, #GirlsCanCode #MomsCanCode, #MomsWhoCode, #WomenWhoCode, #WomenCanCode, #WomenCoders
This bot was created as a way to provide all women coders (and especially newcomers) a way to get support from the community. Sometimes, new coders might feel alone when taking their first development steps and posting their first tweets. Now, these women have a way to immediately share their progress and connect with the coding community. The main idea is, people can follow this bot to easily support these new women coders.
Also, you have probably seen many bots on Twitter, but you probably have not seen many that are open source. Our goal with Women Coders Bot is to provide the community to see exactly how this bot works (the code), and to have a say in how it operates.
This is written in Java (using Twitter4j and Spring Boot) and is deployed in Heroku. It costs about 7$ per month to keep running, which is the cost to run a small Java application in Heroku.
Sure! Just submit an issue here to get started. Never used GitHub before? No problem! Just send us a DM @WomenCodersBot and we can help you. :)
Yes please! Just open an issue and tell us more about what you would like to do.
No problem! If for any reason you don't want this bot to retweet tweets from your account, just send us a DM @WomenCodersBot and we will add you to the Skip Accounts list.