1. What is a Bot?

As per Cloudfare:

A bot is a software application that is programmed to do certain tasks. Bots are automated, which means they run according to their instructions without a human user needing to manually start them up every time. Bots often imitate or replace a human user's behavior. Typically they do repetitive tasks, and they can do them much faster than human users could.

Bots can be:

• Chatbots: Bots that simulate human conversation by responding to certain phrases with programmed responses
• Web crawlers (Googlebots): Bots that scan content on webpages all over the Internet
• Social bots: Bots that operate on social media platforms
• Malicious bots: Bots that scrape content, spread spam content, or carry out credential stuffing attacks/DDOS attacks and many more
• Trading bots: Bots that can be used to trade crypto and stocks in your place

In our case, Twitter is a social media platform so naturally it will be a Social bot, but with a twist because you can practically do anything as long as you're skilled enough and creative enough.

Let's move to chapter 2 and see what you can do with a Twitter Bot.