From Zero to Auto-Tweet: Building a Twitter Bot for Game Platform Updates

Recently while building the automation system for my online game platform, I added a small but powerful feature: whenever a new game goes live, the system automatically generates and posts a tweet with the title, description, and link to our Twitter account. The entire process is fully automated—no manual intervention required.

This post documents the complete journey from registering a developer account to generating API keys and finally getting the bot to send its first tweet.

1. Register for Twitter Developer Account

First, head over to developer.twitter.com and apply for a Developer Account. This account is the gateway to all Twitter API permissions.

After landing on the page, it will ask you about your "intended use case." Here's what I wrote:

You can use GPT to generate this. Note: Must be at least 250 characters.

2. Choose Basic (Free) Plan

Next, you'll be prompted to select a plan. No hesitation needed here—click on "Sign up for Free Account" at the bottom.

The free plan (Basic Tier) includes:

• 200 tweets per month (more than enough)
• Access to standard v2 API
• No payment required for personal projects

For my use case of posting 3-5 game updates per day, this is perfect.

3. Create Project & App

After successful registration, you'll enter the Developer Portal. The system automatically creates a default project and app for you, like:

• Project: xxx_games
• App ID: 3********3

Now we need to grant this App the "write tweets" permission.

4. Enable User Authentication

On the left sidebar, click:

Projects & Apps → [Your App Name] → Settings

Scroll down to find:

User authentication settings

By default it shows "not set up." Click Set up and configure as follows:

After saving, the system will generate a new Client ID / Client Secret (OAuth 2.0)—you can ignore these for now. Continue to the next step.

5. Generate Four Key Credentials (The Ones You Actually Need)

At the top, switch to:

Keys and tokens

Scroll down to the Authentication Tokens section and click Generate:

In my project's .env file, I stored them like this:

TWITTER_API_KEY=xxxx
TWITTER_API_SECRET=xxxx
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxx
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=xxxx

6. Verify Permissions

After generation, open the "Keys and tokens" page again and you should see:

Access level: Read and write

This confirms your App now has tweet posting permissions ✅.

7. Send Your First Automated Tweet

In my project, I'm using the official SDK:

npm install twitter-api-v2

Test code:

import { TwitterApi } from 'twitter-api-v2';

const client = new TwitterApi({
  appKey: process.env.TWITTER_API_KEY,
  appSecret: process.env.TWITTER_API_SECRET,
  accessToken: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN,
  accessSecret: process.env.TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET,
});

await client.v2.tweet({
  text: '🎮 New Game: Wacky Nursery 2\nPlay now: https://your-domain.com/wacky-nursery-2\n#Indie #SinglePlayer #PointandClick',
});

Run this, and within seconds you'll see the tweet automatically posted to your account.

8. Integrate into Business Workflow

In my game platform's automated collection logic, I trigger this right after database insertion:

await saveGameToDatabase(gameData);
await publishToTwitter(gameData);
await sendTelegramNotify(gameData);

This way, new games appear simultaneously in the database, Telegram, and Twitter. The workflow is clean and doesn't interrupt scheduled tasks or require additional queues.

Summary

That's it—a fully automated "new game → Twitter post → Telegram notification" pipeline is now live.

This process might seem lengthy, but once set up, it's fully reusable. If you have your own product, blog, or website, you can make it "post its own updates" just like I did.

You don't need to be online 24/7—but your content can be.