twitter bots

I recently learned some lessons from the first Twitter bot I made: @CoinForTechConf. This bot was built due to laziness - I didn’t want to keep running the same Twitter search queries to discover scholarships for tech conferences. I wanted to build something that would find scholarships for me, notify me, and share the opportunities with other folks looking for funds. The intention was to be helpful to students studying programming and entering the tech industry....

Hey folks, Sorry I haven’t had very much time to post. I wrote my first Twitter bot during a weeklong exploratory project during our break from class. I was inspired to check out bots after attending Liz Uselton’s *.rb talk, Build Your Own Friends: Fun Times With Twitterbots. Here are some key takeaways from my twitter bot experience. You can check it out @CoinForTechConf. And you can find my GitHub repo for it here....