Twitter is a fastest growing social networking website that has some exciting features that make it completely different from other social networking websites. One of the fantastic features is the Twitter bots, which are real bots that help it work for you while you’re offline like a personal assistant.
These bots can do a lot of things like check grammar, follow users, retweet, and even send direct messages, which is great right? You can ask these bots and they will answer you like Google Assistant and Siri. But you have to ask them in the perfect way! Otherwise, they did not respond. For that, you need to create Twitter Bots and configure it.
These bots can automatically bookmark or retweet tweets if certain criteria are met. You need to define criteria so that bots can easily follow your commands. You can also set auto reply when someone follows you or sends you a DM. You will see on Twitter while following some prestigious brands or famous people! After following them, you will automatically receive a DM like “Thanks for following us!”
The best part about these bots is that you don’t need to code or anything, you can easily set up Twitter Bots in 1-2 minutes.
How to create your own Twitter bot?
These bots actually work on a basic principle, you need to specify a keyword and choose an action and then the bots will find all the tweets that match a particular keyword and perform the action. So it is very simple and you can also create these Bots yourself without any code.
For that, you need to create an account on Twitter. If you have one, sign in with your username. Make sure this account works as a bot! Now go to apps.twitter.com, sign in with your account and create a Twitter app. Provide the app name and appropriate description and insert your website URL. Accept the terms and conditions, the developer’s terms submit the form.
Now your Twitter app is ready, but by default, the permission is Read & Write, which means your bots can only read tweets and write tweets, but cannot send direct messages. [Direct Message] To anybody. The Facebook Messenger Like widget for the website allows customers to send you a private message. That makes it easy for you. So, you need to change the permission for that, click Modify app permission and change it to Read, Write and Access direct messages.
Now, you should need keys and access tokens to set up Twitter Bots. For that, click on Create my access token. Twitter will generate some keys and tokens.
How to configure Twitter bots?
Open digitalinspiration.com/bots and the Twitter Bots app will open. Enter the keys and token we created earlier. Now, enter a keyword or some task that you want to assign to the bots. If you want to DM your new follower via bots, enter your Twitter account username in the Twitter search box. Choose an action, DM Followers and enter the message you want to give to your new followers. Once you’re done, click Save and Verify if you’d like. Now your Twitter account is running as a bot. You can ask these bots to perform any action and they will respond to you like Google Assistant and Siri. You can create only one bot in the free account, but if you want more to perform more actions, you have to buy the premium version.