Nanobot: A Tiny Little Twitterbot Framework

Nanobot: A Tiny Little Twitterbot Framework

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There’s been a lot of talk this year about bots and conversational interfaces becoming an increasingly important tool for software developers. A few years ago I wrote about a twitterbot that I created, and I’ve just pulled out all of the common logic into a Python framework that you can use to quickly create your own twitterbots by focusing on just the bits that make your bot unique.
Check out ‘nanobot’.

Bot on the Stream

Bot on the Stream

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You may remember my post from a while back about my experiences writing a Twitter bot. On my desktop, I keep an instance of TweetDeck running throughout the day, and one of its columns is set to view the notifications for @tmbotg. One of the bits of code in the bot is...

2014 Review: Day 8

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Taking an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time, as the last few days of the year slip by us…   My turn! Earlier this year I wrote about a little Twitterbot that I wrote to...

This Might Be a Twitterbot

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A while ago, I made a threat on Twitter that I was going to unfollow any account that wasn’t a bot. On an average day, I’ve been getting as much value out of these algorithmically-generated as I do from human-run accounts, it seems, whether it’s just...