Many people frown upon Twitter bots.  They see them as spammy and malicious.  However, they are simply a tool we can use to achieve a goal.  I will not get into the various use cases of Twitter bots in this post.  I will simply present you with a blueprint for creating a Twitter bot to serve as a tweet curator.  The bot collects tweets that contain certain hashtags and retweets one tweet per hour.  The tweet frequency and hashtags are easily modified to fit your needs.

The first thing you will need is a Twitter account that has a phone number on file.  You will need this in order to obtain a Twitter Developer Account.  More info here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access

It is important to read Twitter’s rules on automation.  One of the most important parts is that you have to make sure your bot account is labeled as such.  You can simply write a short profile for your bot that clearly identifies the account as automated.  You should also be careful about the frequency of your retweets.  This bot will retweet a hashtag every hour, which is perfectly fine.  The Twitter rules allow much more frequent retweets and have a daily tweet limit of 2400 tweets.  However, I would strongly discourage using bots to spam retweets.  This not only creates a negative experience for your followers, it also goes agains the rules.  Once again, make sure to understand the rules before deploying a bot.

Once you have a developer account, you will need to get your own API keys.  Follow the directions on the Twitter developer account website to obtain these keys.  You will be asked a few questions about the purpose of your request.  It is pretty straight forward.  The approval process can take some time. 

Now that you have your API keys, you can see the source code for your very own twitter bot here: https://github.com/TMDStudios/twitter_bot

You can now modify the logic in the code to fit your needs.  Happy coding.