Hi can I run multiple keyword listeners in the same bot??

[trismegistis]

Seems like its not picking up my keywords with multiple "tweetbot.twitter_autoreply_start(" functions called..

[Edwin Dalmaijer]

That's right, the function signals an existing Thread what to do; it doesn't launch a new one with new parameters. There are two ways to make your bot reply to multiple keywords:

1. Combine multiple search keywords into a single string. This will make your auto-replier reply to all of the search keywords by using the same library/libraries (or using different languages; it depends on what you passed to the twitter_autoreply_start method). The Twitter dev site gives a great explanation here. In short, you can use 'foo bar' to auto-reply only when 'foo' AND 'bar' appear in a tweet together, or you can use 'foo, bar' to auto-reply to tweets that contain 'foo' OR 'bar'.
2. You could start multiple instances of MarkovBot, each with their own specific auto-reply parameters.

[trismegistis]

Awesome! Thanks. I got my test account banned because I made multiple scripts to listen to each and every keyword, and they started conflicting xD

[Edwin Dalmaijer]

Hahaha, woops! Yeah, you have to respect Twitter's post limits. Also, spamming random Twitter users is not cool, so keep the auto-replying within limits ;)

(PS: Closing the issue, as it's resolved. Please do open a new one if you need anything else.)