Build A Tweet Bot With Python

What is TwitterBot?

Twitter bot is a terminal application in Python which uses Twitter API and perform the following tasks

Why TwitterBot?

This project has great significance in terms of sentiment analysis and comparison of tweets.

In addition to that we can also retrieve the location , language and timezone for the same.

Components of twitterbot

1. Twitter bot requires following things

2. API access token of twitter

3. Client Id and secret

4. Nltk, paralleldots library,tweepy

5. Counters

6. Python requests

Create A Twitter Account

The first step is creating a Twitter account https://twitter.com/signup. Once this is done the next step is to create a new application.

Create a Twitter App

Go to apps.twitter.com and click on 'Create New App ' button

* Fill out the details of the form correctly

* Read the developer agreement section, and check the box at the bottom if you agree. Then click on

the ‘Create your Twitter application’ button

Keys and Access Tokens

In order to post to a Twitter account automatically, you have to get access keys for your account.

After creating your new app, you would be redirected to its own page. If you weren’t, go to apps.twitter.com and click on your app's name.

On the app’s page, click on the ‘Keys and Access Tokens’ tab

At the bottom of this page, click on the ‘Create my access token’ button.

Make sure you make note of the following four keys, as you will need these later.

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