Quit Facebook

Over Xmas 2016 (27th December to be precise) I decided to deactivate my Facebook account. Been thinking about it for a while and having a bit of time off work meant I could take a step back and re-evaluate what value it adds to…

Twitter Bot with Python

Pretty easy really: Create your twitter account for your bot. Go to dev.twitter.com Register your app Gain your app keys In your Python script “import tweepy” (you may need to pip install tweepy first). Add a function to perform the tweet     def tweet(message):…

Implementing paging with the Twitter Search API

Useful article here runs through the paging mechanism available through the Twitter search API https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/timelines