Guide to Twitter

There are so many great things you can build for Twitter. Here's a roundup of apps that do all sorts of stuff including:

  • Making your very first Twitterbot
  • Unfollowing accounts to clean up your feed
  • Deleting your old tweets
  • Deleting your likes
  • Updating your username based on moon cycle

What will you build??

Getting Started

  1. Apply for a Twitter developer account to get your credentials.

This process requires approval and make take about a day before you can get started.

The Twitter API allows you to access direct message, lists, trends, and public users for free. You can also pay a fee to get additional hooks.

  1. Choose one of the following apps that is closest to your concept and remix it!
  2. Follow the instructions to add your Twitter credentials to the app.

Optional: Twit

Twit is a package that makes it a little bit easier to do REST calls on Twitter. It's being used by a lot of great projects on Glitch, but it's not necessary.

Featured Project

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