/twitter-contest-bot

Will poll for Retweet Contests and retweet them. Inspired by http://www.hscott.net/twitter-contest-winning-as-a-service/

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twitter-contest-bot

Will poll for Retweet Contests and retweet them. Inspired by http://www.hscott.net/twitter-contest-winning-as-a-service/ Uses Naive Bayes Machine Learning to better pick tweets to retweet :)

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Disclaimer

This bot is written purely for educational purposes. I hold no liability for what you do with this bot or what happens to you by using this bot. Abusing this bot can get you banned from Twitter, so make sure to read up on proper usage of the Twitter API.

License

You can fork this repository on GitHub as long as it links back to this original repository. Do not sell this script as I would like the code to remain free.

Prerequisites

  • TwitterAPI
  • textblob
  • Python 2.7

Configuration

Open up lib/config.py and make the values correspond to your Twitter API credentials.

Installation

From the command line:

pip install TwitterAPI
pip install -U textblob nltk
python -m textblob.download_corpora

Then run:

python main.py

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