When we say that Twitter has 330 million monthly active users, we necessarily do not mean that all of them are real people! A lot of bot accounts are there on Twitter for different purposes. A Twitter bot can be used for sending direct messages to people, to auto like, retweet, and to auto follow people. All these actions are taken to increase the activity levels on an account.

Using a bot, you can save a lot of time that needs to be spent in growing your Twitter account. As a business looking to make a presence on Twitter, a bot can be used to enhance customer service and to improve your Twitter marketing. 

Basically, there are two ways in which you can implement the use of a bot on your Twitter profile:

By using a Twitter automation tool

By creating your own Twitter bot 

Twitter automation tool

Out of a plethora of tools available, we have picked out the best one. TweetFull is a twitter automation tool that has proven records of improving your engagement levels and gaining followers. It auto likes and auto retweets your target audience’s tweets, and also auto follows them. 

It offers four different kinds of promotions. The keywords promotion targets tweets on the basis of keywords and hashtags provided by you. The copy followers promotion takes actions on the tweets of followers of your competitors (anyone’s account that you’d mention). Unfollow promotion lets you unfollow spam, inactive, and the accounts that don’t follow you back. Influence them promotion will allow you to engage with the tweets of your favorite influencers.

TweetFull gives you a feature of sentiment-based filtering of tweets. You can set a high sentiment score if you do not want to engage with tweets that carry a negative tone.

How to make a twitter bot

There are four stages involved in the process of making a twitter bot.

Apply for a Twitter developer account: 

Head over to developer.twitter.com. Give a clear reason behind applying for a developer account. Choose a profile that will be associated with the bot. Specify whether the account is going to be used for organizational or personal purposes. 

Create an app:

On the developer’s homepage, click on ‘Create an app’. Give a name to your app and specify its purpose. If it is going to be used by an organization, you can enter the company name and website URL.

Develop the app:

You can develop your app using Python or Google script. Locate the API keys and access tokens, and set the permissions carefully.

Program your twitter bot:

Determine the actions that your bot can take from your Twitter account. For instance, the number of retweets in a day, sending messages to your followers, etc.

Twitter bot checker

It is important that you stay away from harmful bots on Twitter. If you are seeing any kind of suspicious activity from a Twitter account, you can check whether it is a bot or not by using the following tools:

Botometer:

Botometer uses a machine-learning set of rules and generates a specific score to tell you if an account is a bot. If the score is high, it means that the account is a bot and vice versa.

It is an extension available for Google chrome, firefox, and brave. A green score shows that the twitter account is handled by a real person and a red score indicates that it is a bot.

Conclusion

If you do it the right way, the use of a Twitter bot can work wonders for your account. If you can get into the technicalities, it is great to make your own bot, but if not, using a Twitter automation tool is the best and cheaper option.