Any Twitter Dev's?

[SimonMac]

Been toying with trying to create a Twitter bot, plenty of tutorials online and managed to knock something simple up, however the main ones (NPM/twython etc) all allow you to search existing twitter posts and retweet/fav etc, but what I want to to is take a dynamic source (in the form of json) and create a tweet containing this single variable and some other static text around.

Surly this can't be too hard too do?

 

[cojak]

Why would you want to create a twitter bot?

 

[SimonMac]

Why would you want to create a twitter bot?

Because I’m inquisitive

 

[cojak]

Fair enough! I just don't know what they're used for.

 

[minestrone]

I've done a bit of dev with twitter4j, allows you to tweet & DM programmatically if that is what you desire.

Twitter4J - Code Examples

On the subject of bots there is massive potential for plan Bs in there. A massive data set that is mostly untapped.

 

[_V_]

Why would you want to create a twitter bot?

Because, the next step is a CUK forum bot.

 

[mattfx]

Because, the next step is a CUK forum bot.

All it would need to Tweet is "But have you asked your accountant?"

 

[northernladuk]

All it would need to Tweet is "But have you asked your accountant?"

https://forums.contractoruk.com/general/74745-giffgaff.html#post1465676

 

[NLUKbot]

You have awakened the NLUKbot

 

[d000hg]

Any Twitter Dev's what?