---
title: "Free Python Twitter (X) Bot Hosting"
description: "Host a Tweepy bot free on Python. 25% CPU, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB disk, 24/7 uptime, requirements.txt installed on deploy. Posting fits the free X tier."
url: "https://sillydev.co.uk/python-twitter-bot-hosting"
updated: "2026-09-26"
---

Python

# Free Python Twitter bot hosting.

Tweepy or plain HTTP. Your requirements install on deploy and the bot posts on schedule around the clock.

!

## Our hosting is free. X's API mostly is not.

Everything on this page is about running your bot here, which costs nothing. What your bot is allowed to do on X is set by X's API tiers, and the free one is small and mostly about posting. Reading mentions, timelines or search needs a paid tier bought from X, whatever host you use. Check the current tiers in X's developer portal before you build a bot that replies to people.

Tools that avoid the API by logging in as a normal user and scraping the site break whenever the site changes and get accounts suspended. We will not stop you running one within our acceptable use policy, and we do not recommend it: an account lost that way is lost, and we accept no responsibility for it.

Libraries

## Libraries that run here

Tweepy

The long-standing Python client for X's API. Its Client class covers the current API, and it handles OAuth signing for you.

Plain HTTP

With OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens, requests or httpx is enough. With OAuth 1.0a, use a library, because signing requests by hand is where bots go wrong.

Deploying

## Getting it running

1. 1
### Upload your project
Drag the folder into the file manager or push it over SFTP. There is no need for a virtual environment: your server is already isolated from everyone else.
2. 2
### requirements.txt does the rest
Installed on deploy, before the bot starts. Pin your Tweepy version, since X's API has changed underneath older releases before.
3. 3
### Point us at your entry file
Usually bot.py. All four keys are read from os.environ rather than living in your source.

Memory

## What actually fits in 256 MB

A posting bot fits with room to spare. The interpreter and Tweepy make up nearly all of it, and between posts the bot is asleep.

Watch your imports if the bot makes images. A plotting library to draw a daily chart fits; a full data-science stack imported to draw one line can double the baseline before the bot does anything.

Keep the list of what you have already posted in SQLite on your 512 MB of disk, so a restart never posts the same thing twice.

FAQ

## Questions

**Tweepy says my request is forbidden. Is that the host?**

Almost certainly not. A forbidden response from X usually means the endpoint is not included in your API tier, or the app lacks write permission. Check the app's permissions in the developer portal, then regenerate the access token so it picks them up.

**Can I run it once a day instead of constantly?**

Yes. Sleep inside the process between posts, or let the panel's scheduled tasks start it on a timetable. A daily bot uses almost nothing in between.

**Can it post images?**

Yes. Upload the media, attach its ID to the post, and delete the temporary file afterwards so a busy bot does not fill its 512 MB of disk.

**Do I need a virtual environment?**

No. Everything in requirements.txt is installed for you on deploy.

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