https://github.com/arnaucube/echo-botnet

A twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with pre-configured replies
https://github.com/arnaucube/echo-botnet

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A twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with pre-configured replies

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arnaucube/echo-botnet
• Owner: arnaucube
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-05-11T20:59:43.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-08-12T14:11:12.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-16T22:33:53.771Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage: http://arnaucode.com/echo-botnet/
• Size: 3.3 MB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# echo-botnet [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/arnaucode/echo-botnet)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/arnaucode/echo-botnet)

A twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with pre-configured replies

Echo (Ēkhō): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(mythology)#

# How it works

- each bot is launched every 35 seconds, so the bot1 is launched at time 0, the bot2 is launched at time 35s, the bot3 is launched at time 1:10 minutes, etc

- the bots are running in parallel

- each bot streams the Twitter API getting the tweets containing one or more keywords configured in the file keywordsConfig.json

- then, the bot randomly gets a reply from the file repliesConfig.json

- after a bot replies a tweet, the bot 'sleeps' 1 minute, to avoid the Twitter API limitation

Needs the files:

```

botsConfig.json     --> contains the tokens of the bots

keywordsConfig.json --> contains the keywords to track from Twitter API

repliesConfig.json  --> contains the replies

```

Just need to configure (deleting the word 'DEMO' from the filenames):

![echo-botnet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucode/echo-botnet/master/configurationScreenshot.png "configurationScreenshot")

To run, on the /build directory:

```

./echo-botnet

```

Also, can run from the sources, with the Go compiler installed. On the .go files directory:

```

go run *.go

```