Twitter Bot: Search, retweet and update tweet

Based on twitter gem

How to run?

rake twitter_bot:run

Task code

#!/usr/bin/env rake

require_relative './twitter'

task :default => 'twitter_bot:run'

namespace 'twitter_bot' do
  desc "Search, re-tweet, post tweets"
  task :run do
    bot = Twitter::Bot.new
    bot.start
  end
end

Defaults

Twitter bot by default searches for #ThoughtOfTheDay hashtag and selects first 50 tweets and then takes one random and re-tweets it.

Customization

Twitter bot can be customized using following options.

1. Query
2. Limit
3. New tweet

bot = Twitter::Bot.new(query: '#rails', limit: 100, new_tweet: true)
bot.start