Bots on Bots on Bots on Twitter

A little context

The Twitter API is a playground, if you’re inclined toward social networks and information. Building a basic bot to interact with the platform via the backend functionality is a fun way to learn some rudimentary capabilities. There are a few different ways to go about triggering bots and timeline activities but I’m going to give examples that rely on the Python language to make things happen.

In early 2018 I acquired a Raspberry Pi to start prototyping a few projects and began initial experiments to learn to write code in Python. This included deploying packages such as Tweepy, which facilitates interfacing with the Twitter API via account credentials. My first exercise was to create image collages that Wild West Analogy, an old account that had been sitting dormant for a few years, would post.

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