Building Social Bot with Python and Tweepy

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B.Sarala, Rithika A. Chezhian, Praneetha K, Nivetha S, K.Jeevitha, K.Ilangovan, Dr. M. Somasundaram

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Twitter bots are bots which interacts with twitter as an automated user account using an Application Programming Interface (API).  The social bots are programmed  to carry out duties usually linked with   human actions,such as liking tweets, following users, direct messaging (DM) other users and most significantly, they can tweet information, and re-tweet anything posed by a particular set of users or attributing a dstinct hashtag. Most of them are utilized to carry out cardinal tasks, like tweet about natural disasters in a crucial period of time and play a major role as component part of a cautionary system. In scenarios including the chances of an important event,however, policy-making or otherwise, they are usually utilized to create a huge impact  in special content by diffusing news  at a pace that is not manageable with human users.

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