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Create your own twitter bots

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    Post Statuses with Twit.js
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Post Statuses with Twit.js

Hannah Davis
InstructorHannah Davis
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Published 8 years ago
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In this lesson, our bot will tweet hello to the Twitter world! We'll do this by using Twit's POST method to post our status to the statuses/update endpoint.

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[00:01] First, we'll need the twit library. Then we'll make our bot by giving it all of our consumer keys and access tokens, and a timeout for HTTP requests.

[00:20] To tweet, the syntax is bot.post. We're going to post to statuses/update with a status which is our string we want to tweet, and then a callback.

[01:03] If we run this, we can see that our tweet has been tweeted.

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