diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 env
 env.json
-__pycache__
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+__pycache__
+run_logs.txt
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ How to get Twitter API keys:
 
 Give the tokens and keys to the env.json file (a sample is given, follow that naming convention only)
 Run the main.py file and voila, now send any text to your telegram bot and it will tweet it
+Or you can run the start.sh file to start a background process. And stop.sh to kill the process
 
 Telegram bot commands
 /start: displays a info message
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee5f92c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# !/bin/bash
+echo $HOME
+source "$HOME/tweet-from-message/env/bin/activate"
+echo Starting Bot...
+python main.py > run_logs.txt &
+sleep 3
+echo Bot started.
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diff --git a/stop.sh b/stop.sh
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index 0000000..e96a3f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stop.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# !/bin/bash
+kill -9 $(ps aux | grep "[p]ython main.py" | awk '{print $2}')
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