Twitter Bot

ProgHist Twitter Bot

A Twitter bot was built for The Programming Historian by @walshbr.

This repository contains the code https://github.com/programminghistorian/proghistbot alongside some general information in the README.md about how it works, and what services it is integrated with.

Retiring a Lesson from the Twitter Bot

When a lesson is retired, its associated tweets must also be removed from the spreadsheet. These edits should be made by the editor who merges the pull request to retire the lesson. Once the pull request is merged, the process for removing them is pretty straightforward:

1. On the spreadsheet, go to the tab for language of the publication from which the lesson is being retired.
2. Select the entire row of the lesson tweet that needs to be removed and copy it to your clipboard.
3. Paste the copied data as a new row onto the last tab of the spreadsheet entitled "deprecated." This tab is not used by the bot and only serves as an archive of past tweets.
4. Now that you've archived the tweet, you can safely remove it from the spreadsheet. Go back to the language tab for the tweet, highlight the row in question, and delete the row. This step is especially important - make sure that you don't just clear the data and leave a blank row in its place. You want the old row entirely removed so that there are no blank rows in data.