Twitter COVID-19 Awarness Bot

A Twitter bot that helps to stop misinformation on COVID-19 by replying to the keyword or phrase-specific tweets made by people in real time. By utilizing the Twitter API made for developers it listens to a stream of tweets through a set of rules which are defined in this code. Which help to parse tweets and targets those that deny Covid-19 and reply to them with links to correct information about Covid-19.

Technologies

1. Node.js version 16.13.0
2. TypeScript support for Node.js version 17.0.1
3. npm-package: twitter-api-v2

Roadmap

Goal is to fetch results of a filtered stream of tweets and reply to results with a post through the bot.

Requirements

• A twitter developer account is needed with required authentication to read and post tweets.

• API: Twitter API v2

• Auth: You will need an API key and secret as well as a BEARER token from Twitter API once you have signed up for a twitter developer account.

Useful commands

• npm run build compile typescript to js
• npm run start compiles js code and deploys the bot

Improvements to be added

• stream rules can be tweaked more for clearer tweet results
• make bot stop replying to itself
• re-tweet Covid-19 info to spread more awarness
• catch and resolve any errors encountered