Can I create an engagement bot using my main developer account?

[M0zrat]

Hi everyone,

I want to make a simple bot that tweets out activity in my community to make it easer for community members to keep track of what’s going on. I have an approved developer account on my main twitter account, but of course I don’t want to use that handle as the bot. Do I need to make a new account and reply for a second developer account under the new handle or can I do this with my current developer account somehow?

Sorry this seems like a basic question but I’m having trouble finding the answer in the menus/documentation. Thanks for any help.

[Connexinet]

This is very similar to a question I jut answered

Possible to Tweet to Multiple Twitter Accounts Using One Developer Account?

Hi There, I know this is most likely not possible but still want to ask here to double check. I am working on a video game like installation that is designed for an art museum in New York. In this game there are a few characters, each character will have its own twitter account, and they will share their statuses through their own twitter accounts. Which, requires us to create multiple accounts for them AND have them all approved as developer accounts. Given the time that takes for a new …

[M0zrat]

This is helpful, but if possible, I don’t want to have to create a “sign in with twitter” interface for my app (https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/log-in-with-twitter/guides/implementing-sign-in-with-twitter) – I just want to grant the app access to one specific account. I’m not seeing a simple way to do this in the documentation. It seems like you can only directly generate access keys to the main developer account.

[Connexinet]

Yeah it’s a bit complex to build from scratch but if you just care about the token you use one of the samples to do this.

If you are good with php @abraham has a nice demo you can use:

abraham/twitteroauth-demo

If you are good with asp.net, you build something very quickly with these steps:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/social/twitter-logins?view=aspnetcore-2.1&tabs=aspnetcore2x

If you can’t be bothered with installing anything you can use a web browser and Postman to do all the 3 legged requests and manually move the parameters from one request to the next one.

Any of this should take less than one hour.

Alternatively you can transfer your account, but it might take several weeks to get done.

(There is also advantage to having multiple tokens, you can use one for production one for testing etc)

Hope this helps.

[system]

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