[Inpycon] Regarding ReTweet Bot

[Sanchit Balchandani]

Hi Bibhas,

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 12:37 AM Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:

> Hi Sanchit,
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 12:24 AM, Sanchit Balchandani <
> balchandani.sanchit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bibhas,
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 12:12 AM Bibhas Ch Debnath <me at bibhas.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat 2 Jun, 2018, 11:58 PM Rohith Gilla, <gillarohith1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have created this ReTweet bot for PyConIndia for social media
>>>> posts.It Retweets for specific hashtags , mentions. It also retweets with
>>>> reply, follow the person who tweeted using the hashtag.
>>>> Please find this repo  @
>>>> https://github.com/Rohithgilla12/PyCon-Twitter-Bot .
>>>> This bot can be used every year by PyCon India social media by just
>>>> changing the hashtag names and credentials. This bot can also be used for
>>>> mass publicity like all the social media volunteers using this they can
>>>> retweet and increase the hype of PyConIndia.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Appreciate the effort, but I'd suggest not to automate social media
>>> communications. There *will* be unexpected scenarios. Its better if its
>>> done manually and someone uses their own human sense to interact with
>>> followers.
>>>
>>
>> ​The purpose of this bot is not to communicate on behalf of PyCon India
>> twitter account, it is just do the retweets of some particular hashtags so
>> that it increases the popularity index of those hashtags, which will
>> eventually lead to more impressions (and probably ticket sales too?)
>>
>
> ​Sure. But I saw the code and it seems to retweet anything that matches
> ​the search terms. So if anyone tweets anything negative, the bot will RT
> that as well.
>
> I'm sure this will get some rewrite done. Just mentioning edge cases so
> that we take them into consideration.
>

​Sure, this make sense. I'll get these things fixed :)

>
> Also, @Rohit, please use a pep8 linter. :)
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS: for some reason, we're using old style RT? [1] Don't do that. Nobody
> likes them.​
>

> [1]:
> https://github.com/Rohithgilla12/PyCon-Twitter-Bot/blob/master/main.py#L67
>
>
>
>>
>>> Social media interactions will require someone with experience as there
>>> might be negative responses those have to be handled with care. Impulsive
>>> responses need be avoided.
>>>
>>> ​All interactions and replies to ​the followers are being done manually,
>> and this would not be automated w/ this bot.
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rohith Gilla
>>>>
>>>>
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