Introduction to the Tweet Generator Project

What is the project about?

In this chapter we'll build another interesting project based on Twitter tweets. We will create a web application that will accept a short topic on which a tweet will be generate using OpenAI. We will provide the user to perform following actions:

1. Generate a tweet based on the topic entered in the text box. We will use OpenAI's GPT model to implement the same.

2. Generate a tweet with an AI generated image based on the topic entered in the text box. We will use OpenAI's GPT model to generate the tweet and use Dall•E to generate an image based on the tweet generated.

3. Once a tweet (with or without image) is generated, the user can post the tweet to their Twitter account. For this, the user need to create an app in Twitter's developer portal and get the required API keys and secrets. We will discuss this later in this chapter on how to generate an app and get the keys and secrets.

4. Implement a rate-limiting middleware that will restrict the user to not abuse the system by making a lot of API calls that may cause increased costs and impact the performance of the system. We will use Redis for this implementation.

Get keys and secrets from Twitter

We will need to create an app in Twitter's developer portal. You can visit the Twitter Developer Portal and login with your credentials. Once logged in, visit the developer portal dashboard or alternatively access the dashboard here. follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Click the "Add App" button.

If this is your first time creating an app with Twitter, then you can view a different flow. You need to select the subscription plan (can select "Sign up for free account" option, fill in the details on what you would be building, and submit it. You can see a default project being created for you. You can delete the project by editing it.