https://github.com/karan/takeoverbot

Twitter bot to monitor and respond to tweets promoting state-backed information operations
https://github.com/karan/takeoverbot

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Twitter bot to monitor and respond to tweets promoting state-backed information operations

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/karan/takeoverbot
• Owner: karan
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2020-04-16T03:43:17.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-05-02T20:35:11.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T09:12:22.193Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: democracy, drumpf, fake-news, journalism, russian, twitter, twitter-bot
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://mobile.twitter.com/TakeoverBot/with_replies
• Size: 1.09 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# TakeoverBot

Download [fake local news sites](https://github.com/MassMove/AttackVectors), search for mentions of each on Twitter, and reply to them with an informative message.

A dumb "database" of CSV files is saved for recall.

```

$ cp template.env .env

# Add API keys

$ go run main.go

```

## TODO

- [ ] Using an actual DB for tracking tweets sent (instead of a local csv file)

- [ ] Smarter rate limit handling

- [ ] Discarding old tweets (say older than a week)

- [ ] Possibly running in multiple threads (go func())

- [ ] Variations of messages posted

- [ ] User opt-out

- [ ] Exclude tweets from accounts that belong to fake journos

- [ ] Saving aggregate data for analysis

- [ ] Linking to a form to collect feedback