Building Twitter bot using Python

Building Twitter bot using Python

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  Building Twitterbot Charlotte Botsand AI Meetup June 2017
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  Bot and AInews • Chat/Bots – Bot platforms are gaining traction – Burned by Bots - supports basic use cases with engagement/setup frustration – Apple and MS have released home pods – Competitors to Alexa – Follow ChatbotMagazine.com of latest updates • Data Science – Many companies (lead by startups) are coming up with AI based solutions – Problem focus is Analytics, NLP, Voice and Vision – Automation is going to have big next gen social impact – 100’s of resources for learning data science
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  Twitterbot Use cases •Listen to tweets and respond, retweet, follow up or direct messages • Listen to industry focus sentiments to monetize (trading) • Monitor tweets for brand value analysis – Send achievement notifications – Critical Alerts
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  Accessing Twitter Data •Objects – Tweets, Users, Entities and Places • REST API – Search API, Direct Messages, Collections • Streaming API • Rate limiting (15 minute window) • API Console
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  Getting Started • Twittersetup – Register handle – Setup new app – Generate oauth and access keys • Development – SDK available for most platforms
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  Steps for Python •Virtualenv setup • Pip Install tweepy or python-twitter • Read Tweet and parse using NLTK or Spacy or Google Cloud Natural Language API • Build sentiment analysis (positive, neutral or negative) • Take an action
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  Demo - 1 •Print Timelines • Get followers • Follow users • Post message • Retweet
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  Demo - 2 •Trump2cash • TwitterFollowBot