The Most Comprehensive Guide to Twitter Webhooks on the Internet

Written by alexluong | Published 2019/10/29
Tech Story Tags: nodejs | twitter | twitter-webhooks | what-is-a-webhook | how-to-use-twitter-webhooks | how-to-build-twitter-webhooks | latest-tech-stories | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR Twitter's Account Activity API is challenging to understand and work with the new webhook concept. In this post, I hope to explain how it works and build a fun Twitter bot to put these concepts in practice. I'm gonna show you how Twitter webhook works by building @GimmeDadJoke. Whenever you mention the bot in your tweet, it will reply with a dad joke. The jokes are going to be fetched from icanhazdadjoke. It will be written in JavaScript/NJS and deploy it on Zeit Now.via the TL;DR App

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Written by alexluong | Hello 👋I write about JavaScript, React, and Gatsby.
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/10/29