I Built a Twitter Bot

January 23rd, 2018

I make the occasional joke on Twitter about making a Twitter Bot.  I recently saw a tweet from The Practical Developer (ironically, that’s probably a bot itself… and I saw a retweet of the original tweet on January 22, 2017):

The code is pretty easy, particularly if you don’t do the same bot the author did.  I made it pretty simple – instead of retweeting and quoting tweets, I’d just tweet a random number:

Simple.  It tweets every 10 minutes with a random number. Sometime I will do more. I’m just not sure what yet.