Twitter Bot Workshop for RUM Linguists

Welcome to my Twitter Bot Workshop!

Here’s a link to a Google document for the workshop.

Those interested in participating will profit most from the workshop by reading the document and doing the first three steps:

  1. Explore the Twitter bot examples listed in the document for ideas and inspiration to come up with a concept and basic operation of a bot you would like to create.
  2. Think of sentence templates, variables, and datasets that you can use to generate the kind of output you want your bot to generate. Here are some useful resources.
  3. Create a Twitter account for your bot.
  • You will need an e-mail address for that account. You can create one from scratch, or if you have a Gmail account, you can add +botname to your e-mail address before the @ sign (leonardo.flores@upr.eduleonardo.flores+bot@upr.edu).
  • You will also need a phone number for your account that isn’t tied to any other Twitter account.
  • Flesh out the account with a profile picture, header picture, and description. This is where you begin to develop its character and personality.

And if you can’t do it, no worries! Those who don’t have an individual bot project to develop will work collectively to create a bot in the workshop. Here’s a link to our worksheet.