[Tutor] Responding Tweet: A Twitter Bot

[Alan Gauld]

On 20/02/14 08:23, Zaki Akhmad wrote:

> I am trying to create a twitter bot which respond mentions as soon as
> possible. Here's the detail.

These have been around for a long time in email circles.

One thing to watch is detection of cycles.

That's where someone tweets you and you auto-respond,
But they also have an auto-responder that responds
to your automated message. Will your program then
respond to that too? If so you get a cycle with an
infinite loop of auto responses.

That's not a good thing.

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