I've been playing around with the Twitter API to learn a bit more about it. As part of that, I created a very simple twitter search project in Python. Sharing it in case others might find it useful. https://github.com/BobAleena/SimpleTwitterSearch
In my experience, It is almost impossible to get someone try your bot this way. Reasons being:
This is good advice. I am not really looking to build upon this right now due to other commitments. Was just sharing it in case someone else is interested in picking up or contributing. The idea of hosting it with a UI is great idea -- perhaps some day I'll get around to it! Or someone will offer to do so ;)