echo-botnet

Open source twitter botnet

The echo of Echo (Ēkhō)

Source code

Launch bots

Each bot from the botsConfig.json file is launched every 35 seconds

Get the tweets

Each bot streams the Twitter API getting the tweets containing one or more keywords configured in the file keywordsConfig.json

Post replies

Then, the bot randomly posts a reply from the file repliesConfig.json to the user tweet

Bot sleeps

Bot sleeps for 1 minute, to avoid Twitter API limitation. Then, starts the process again

Reply from the botnet to tweets containing the configured keywords, with configured replies

Configuration example

Download the botnet

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About ethics

Code written in Go lang as free and open source project, with academic purposes.