Any interest in a twitter bot (like the reddit one)?

[karan]

Based on local journals sites file, I whipped up https://twitter.com/TakeoverBot. It doesn't run all the time, and isn't even built to handle all errors properly - it's ~70% done. But getting to 90+% would be a few more hours of work.

The repo is private (hard-coded keys lol), but I can share the code if there is interest in maintaining and researching the findings. Any takers?

Its relatively simple go code with likely many optimizations:

• Using an actual DB for tracking tweets sent (instead of a local csv file)
• Smarter rate limit handling
• Discarding old tweets (say older than a week)
• Saving aggregate data for analysis
• Linking to a form to collect feedback
• Possibly running in multiple threads (go func())
• Variations of messages posted
• User opt-out

[MattNewtonian]

Your bot hasn't tweeted yet!

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[karan]

It's tweets are replies, so here https://mobile.twitter.com/TakeoverBot/with_replies

[mentor20]

Yess! Please share the code. We might also want to discard tweets by the Twitter accounts of the domains themselves - filter out any account in the twitterUsername column. Can you remove the keys before committing like this: https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors/blob/master/LocalJournals/utils/CyberDome/tron.py#L7 or put them in a git-ignored ini file?

[karan]

I was trying to muck around to make GOPATH work nice on my system with the code living deep in this repo, but I couldn't. So I decided to just open up the repo: https://github.com/karan/TakeoverBot.

It's Apache 2 licensed so pretty open, so if you'd like to improve it feel free to either put it in this repo, or send me PRs. I can continue using my server and API keys.

[mentor20]

Thanks for sharing the repo! Can you add a link back here in the messages so users can find out more: https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors#local-journals?

[mentor20]

Awesome, thanks for adding a link to the bot from the readme! It would also be nice if you could add a link back here to the bot's messages, e.g.: https://mobile.twitter.com/Wardanncheryl/status/1252625571823017984

And I think we should not post on the Tiwtter accounts of the journals themselves - should be easy enough to ignore Tweets from the twitterUsername column in sites.csv?