You can even jump straight in with tutorials like this one from CS Dojo that teach you how to make a simple Python Twitter bot with no experience at all. As you start to code, you’ll quickly ...

Then I got the Twitter bot running on my Raspberry Pi using Twython. This was a fun little experiment. So go ahead and follow @538bot to see what exactly the fox said.

To discover the answer to that question, I wrote a Python script that logs into Twitter, searches for tweets that say something along the lines of “retweet to win!” and then retweets them.

You’ll need a developer account, a ‘project’ and an ‘app’ to register your bot with Twitter. The process is relatively simple and should only take a few minutes.