Twitter is extremely easy to build bots on, they actually have a fairly easy to use and decent API. It's what I used when I was learning how to interact with web APIs.
You could probably run quite a few from a Pi if you really wanted to.
I looked into it a few years ago and within days Twitter, again, changed their policy on bots. Seems like a cat and mouse game going on for some time.
Did find a few LARGE companies that for a cost will manage your social media accounts to drive attention. This always requires bots and so it's interesting to note these companies never skipped a beat.
They do get kind of pissy about using the bots, but it's easy enough to build one. I gave up after they started doing the whining about phone numbers. No more cheese bot.
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