2. What can you do with a Twitter Bot?

Believe it or not but Twitter bots are actually very powerful. When we described them we said that bots can be used to automate repetitive tasks, practically to make our life easier, by being able to perform all actions that we can in the platform.

Twitter offers a rich API allowing applications to perform nearly every action with bots that can be done on the Twitter website. Here are a list of actions that you can perform with Twitter bots and some possible use cases.

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Bots Action:

• Action Description

• Send Public Reply

• Auto reply to tweets that contain particular words or match a certain criteria

• If a tweet includes your brand mention, you can send a canned auto response to the Twitter user.

• Send Private Direct Message

• Send a Direct Message to people who have tweeted on certain topic

• You can send DMs to people who follow you or those have chosen to accept DMs from everyone.

• Retweet Tweet

• Retweets a public tweet

• Quote Tweet

• Retweets a tweets but prefix the tweet with your own comment (RT + Comment)

• If @user tweets “what is the color”, your bot can tweet “Blue RT @user what is the color” to give context to the reply.

• Follow Tweeter

• Follow Twitter users who have tweeted on specific topics

• Auto follow twitter users who tweet about your brand or your favorite sports team.

• Add Tweeter to List

• Add Twitter the user to an existing list

• Make a Twitter list of people who tweet about your brand. A list can have no more than 5000 members.

• Follow Profile

• Search Twitter profiles by full name, company name, location, or other criteria.

• Auto Follow profile that match your criteria.

• Add Profile to List

• Add Twitter users to a List

• Search Twitter profiles and add them to a list. For instance, you can build a list of all profiles that have your company name in the bio / description.

• Follow Back

• Follow someone who follows another user

• If @user gets a new follower, follow back

• Direct Message Followers: Send a message to your new followers (Welcome to BerryNews Twitter Page)