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README.md

http://arnaucode.com/echo-botnet/

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):

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