This is how I created a GitHub Action that sends tweets to my Twitter automaticly

Twitter Authentification

Log into your Twitter account

https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access

Once approved create a new app

https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/apps/new
Name your twitter bot
You should have keys now
Create new repo in github
Save your twitter keys to your GitHub repository secrets
Click on settings > secrets in your repository
Add the keys from your twitter app you created
Name them as close as twitter state so you can recall them later easily

eg.

TWITTER_API_KEY
API_KEY_SECRET
TIH_BEARER_TOKEN

Also create more keys by clicking new access token and secret and save all these values

Create a GitHub Action

Create a new file in your GitHub repo like this path
```
twitterBot/.github/workflows/twitterBot.yml
```

Add the below code to file

# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions

name: TwitterBot

# Controls when the action will run. 
on:
  # Triggers the workflow on push or pull request events but only for the main branch
  push:
    branches: [ main ]
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 16 * * *' 
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

# A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel
jobs:
  # This workflow contains a single job called "build"
  build:
    # The type of runner that the job will run on
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    #Tweet to twitter https://github.com/marketplace/actions/tweet-to-twitter
      - name: TweetToTwitter
        uses: InfraWay/tweet-action@v1.0.1
        with:
          status: Test Tweet
          api_key: ${{ secrets.TWITTER_API_KEY }}
          api_key_secret: ${{ secrets.API_KEY_SECRET }}
          access_token: ${{ secrets.BEARER_TOKEN }}
          access_token_secret: ${{ secrets.BEARER_TOKEN }}

Commit your changes
Click actions and see your GitHub action build
If you get this error
Your keys arnt set correctly
Re generate your keys in twitter and reset them in your github repository secrets

Re run job or add empty space commit to your yml file and push commit. The action is set to build on push at the moment.

If you get this error

Error: {"request":"\/1.1\/statuses\/update.json","error":"Read-only application cannot POST."}

Set your twitter app to be able to write posts
Twitter App Settings > App permissions > Edit

Set to read and write

You will have to regenerate all your keys and save them to your GitHub Secrets
If you see success your github action will succeed

And you will have a successful tweet !😵

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Hope this works for you. Let me know if you get stuck.

Happy Coding, Asrin

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References

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/tweet-to-twitter in
https://images.app.goo.gl/6bhWC7NVab2f1NKg9

Twitter tweet bot using GitHub Actions

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