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Apollo 11 at 50 - A Simple Twitter Bot
The document describes how the author created a Twitter bot called @apollo11at50 that tweets the Apollo 11 mission timeline in real time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission. It details how the author scraped NASA's timeline data, used Ruby and Twitter's API to code the bot, sourced NASA photos, and deployed the bot to tweet the remaining events, encouraging people to follow @apollo11at50 to see the concluding tweets.
Apollo 11 at 50 - A Simple Twitter Bot
- 2. Apollo 11 Celebrated its 50thAnniversary Last Month
- 3. I AM OLDENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL MISSION IN 1969
- 4. In 1969 Iwas a BIG Fan of Anything connected to SPACE
- 6. In 2019 I’MSTILL a BIG Fan of Anything connected to SPACE
- 7. SUNday 14th July I’msitting at My Desktop working on My Talks
- 8. “There should be aTwitterbot celebrating Apollo 11”
- 9. “It could TWEET theMission Timeline In REAL time”
- 10. “Writing That might bemore interesting than writing talks”
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- 14. How to builda Twitterbot (In Four Minutes)
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- 27. NO-ONE EVER Accused NASA ofNOT TAKING ENOUGH PHOTOS
- 28. BONUS: All of NASA’sPhotos are Available for REUSE
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