read tweets from your timeline,check names of followers,read tweets posted by you and post tweets to your timeline 'num' times every 'min' mins

twitter_bot.py

import tweepy,time,sys
from tweepy import OAuthHandler
import json
import io
fw=io.open("twitter.txt",'w',encoding='utf8')

def process_or_store(tweet):
    print json.dumps(tweet)                                                 #use tweet['text'] to print only the text part

def read_tweets():
    consumer_key='Your Consumer Key'
    consumer_secret='Your Consumer Secret'

    access_token='Your Access Token'
    access_secret='Your Access Secret'

    auth=OAuthHandler(consumer_key,consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token,access_secret)

    api=tweepy.API(auth)

    for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.home_timeline).items(10):   #to read tweets from timeline
        fw.write(status.text+"\n")
        process_or_store(status._json)


    """for friend in tweepy.Cursor(api.friends).items():                   #to get the list of followers
        fw.write(friend.name+"\n")
        process_or_store(friend._json)"""

    """for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline).items(10):          #to get our tweets
        process_or_store(tweet._json)"""

    fw.close()                                                           #use when using first function to write timeline tweets



def post_tweet(tweet,num,min):                                                      #function to tweet on twitter

   consumer_key='Your Consumer Key'
    consumer_secret='Your Consumer Secret'

    access_token='Your Access Token'
    access_secret='Your Access Secret'

    auth=OAuthHandler(consumer_key,consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token,access_secret)

    api=tweepy.API(auth)

    i=0
    while i<num:
        api.update_status(status=tweet)
        time.sleep(min*60)                                          #tweet 10 times after every 10 mins





read_tweets()                                                   #calling function to read tweets from your timeline