Description

everyword is tweeting the entire english language, one word at a time, every 30 minutes. greatartbot is tweeting a new piece of digital art, four times a day. 555uhz is tweeting the film Top Gun in screenshots, one second at a time, every 30 minutes.

Twitter is full of accounts that are operated by robots rather than human beings.

Building bots is a heap of fun, and surprisingly simple! Once you get the hang of it, a new bot can be built from scratch in a matter of hours. This workshop is aimed at people with no experience maintaining a web server or writing code, and by the end everyone will have a working Twitter bot.

You will learn to

• Set up and configure your own Linux server on Linode
• Securely log into your server to make modifications
• Use the Linux terminal
• Register your bot with Twitter
• Implement your bot in Ruby (no previous Ruby experience necessary)
• Set your bot on a schedule using cron