How to add an twitter bot to your hood

What is a twitter bot?

Twitter bots are twitter accounts operated by software. In our case we will show you how to add a bot for users to subscribe to, so they can send messages into your hood system by mentioning the bot or direct messaging it, which get distributed to the other platforms. Also they can receive messages from other platforms by reading the tweets of the bot.

Example: You as a hood admin added the bot @kibicara-my-hood to your hood. John wants to send a message to all hood subscribers. He then uses his twitter account to follow to the bot @kibicara-my-hood and sends his message to the bot by sending a tweet. His message will be distributed to the other platforms and Sandra who is subscribed to your email hood bot gets John's message via email.

How to add a twitter bot to your hood?

  1. Create a twitter account for the twitter bot and log in. We recommend NOT to use your own personal twitter account but to create a new seperate hood account since you will give full access to the account to our software.
  2. Click on the Add a new platform connection!-Button. This will redirect you to the twitter page to authorize access to the twitter account. Click the Authorize app Button. You will be redirected back here. Done!

Can I stop relaying twitter messages?

Yes, if you want to stop relaying twitter messages from a specific twitter bot, just use the switch to the bot to stop relaying.