The document describes how the author created a Twitter bot called @apollo11at50 that tweets the Apollo 11 mission timeline in real time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission. It details how the author scraped NASA's timeline data, used Ruby and Twitter's API to code the bot, sourced NASA photos, and deployed the bot to tweet the remaining events, encouraging people to follow @apollo11at50 to see the concluding tweets.

2. Apollo 11
Celebrated its
50th Anniversary
Last Month

3. I AM OLD ENOUGH
TO REMEMBER THE
ORIGINAL MISSION
IN 1969

4. In 1969 I was a BIG
Fan of Anything
connected to
SPACE

6. In 2019 I’M STILL
a BIG Fan of
Anything
connected to
SPACE

7. SUNday 14th July
I’m sitting at My
Desktop working
on My Talks

8. “There should be
a Twitterbot
celebrating
Apollo 11”

9. “It could TWEET
the Mission
Timeline In REAL
time”

10. “Writing That
might be more
interesting than
writing talks”

11. Time Passes
(About 90
Minutes)

13. @apollo11at50

14. How to build a
Twitterbot
(In Four Minutes)

15. DATA +
CODE +
IMAGEs

16. DATA

17. Google
“Apollo 11
Mission
Timeline”

19. Screen-Scraping

20. Screen-Scraping
Data Munging

21. Screen-Scraping
Data Munging
Stick in a
database

22. CODE

23. NET::TWITTER
IS YOUR
FRIEND

24. You need a
Twitter
Developer
Account

25. https://github.com/davorg/apollo11

26. IMAGES

27. NO-ONE EVER
Accused NASA
of NOT TAKING
ENOUGH PHOTOS

28. BONUS: All of
NASA’s Photos
are Available
for REUSE

29. DEPLOYMENT

30. Github
Travis-CI
Docker
AWS ECS

31. NAH

32. Git CHECKOUT
REAL Computer
CRONJOB

33. First COUPLE
OF TWEETS
DIDN’t WORK

34. I AM
NOT A
SYSADMIN, OK!

38. UNICODE
FAIL!

39. THE MOST
IMPORTANT TWEET
IN THE SERIES

40. EASY FIX
THOUGH

41. IT’ll WORK
In 2029

42. It hasn’t
Finished
Tweeting yet

43. STILL three
Tweets
To Go

44. You’ll have to
Follow
To see when
They appear

45. @apollo11at50

46. @davorg