Building Twitter Bots in Node

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1. Building Twitter Bots in Node Philip James @phildini
2. Who’s this guy? #nodetweets @phildini
3. Why should you build twitter bots? @phildini do I #nodetweets
4. What does a twitter bot need? @phildini #nodetweets • Some bit of code, for posting to twitter • Write access to a twitter account • A way to post responsively, or on a schedule
5. What are we going to do? @phildini #nodetweets
6. @phildini #nodetweets Get a word from the Wordnik API Mix that word into a tweet Post that tweet to twitter
7. Let’s start coding! @phildini #nodetweets
8. Let’s start coding! @phildini #nodetweets
9. We need a key! @phildini #nodetweets https://www.wordnik.com
10. We need a key! @phildini #nodetweets http://developer.wordnik.com/
11. We need a key! @phildini #nodetweets https://www.wordnik.com/users/edit
12. We need a key! @phildini #nodetweets permissions.js
13. Let’s start coding! @phildini #nodetweets
14. Add some twitter @phildini #nodetweets
15. Twitter doesn’t like developers @phildini #nodetweets bots
16. Add some twitter @phildini #nodetweets
17. Add some twitter @phildini #nodetweets config.js
18. Add some twitter @phildini #nodetweets
19. Add some twitter @phildini #nodetweets
20. Make it Run @phildini #nodetweets
21. @phildini #nodetweets
22. Where do we go from here? @phildini #nodetweets
23. Go Forth and Bot! @phildini #nodetweets • Some bit of code, for posting to twitter • Write access to a twitter account • A way to post responsively, or on a schedule Bots need: Bots are: • Fun • Hopefully straightforward • Art
24. The World Needs Your Twitterbot! @phildini #nodetweets
25. Credits @phildini #nodetweets Erin McKean (@emckean) Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions)
26. I gave this talk - you can too! #nodetweets @phildini
27. Thanks! Questions? @phildini #nodetweets