From Zero to Auto-Tweet: Building a Twitter Bot for Game Platform Updates
2025/10/20

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

A complete walkthrough of creating a Twitter Bot for automated posting, from developer account setup to API integration.


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.

Final result


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:

"Personal automation to post new browser games updates from my website. The goal is to make it easier for users to discover free online games."

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

Register Twitter Developer Account


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.

Choose free plan


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.

Create project


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:

FieldValue
App permissions✅ Read and Write
Type of AppWeb App, Automated App or Bot
Callback URLhttps://xxxxx.com
Website URLhttps://xxxxx.com

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:

NamePurpose
API KeyApplication identifier
API Key SecretApplication secret
Access TokenAccount authorization credential
Access Token SecretAccount authorization key

These are shown only once—make sure to copy and save them immediately!

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.

Tweet posted


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.

StepDetails
Register developer accountdeveloper.twitter.com
Choose Basic free plan200 tweets/month
Set permissionsRead and Write
Generate API Keys & Access Tokens4 credentials total
Use twitter-api-v2 to post tweetsCode integration
Integrate with database logicAuto-post on success

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.