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A Twitter user may decide to run a giveaway for a random selection of Twitter users who interacted with a tweet of theirs. @mykeels saw a possibility to automate this and created a Random-Twitter-Bot specification. Twitter users should not have to go through the stress of perusing their tweet interactors to select winners of a random giveaway. He suggested the idea to me and I built it. In this article, I share my experience building @PickAtRandom for anyone desiring to build something similar....

How it started In early 2018, I started learning android application development through Udacity’s free android development course. It was quite hard at first as I had a weak background in Java and application development principles. I finished the program and I considered myself to have improved, not because I built the Sunshine app, but because I found out loopholes in my programming knowledge. I began to aim for improvement by buidling something else, but with guidance too, to fill the holes....