The Bot is (Still) Alive
Funny thought: I’m manually checking an automated bot, as a kind of electronic “canary in a coal mine” for Twitter (a service whose icon is a bird).
Posts Tagged "twitter bot"
Timely Tweets
A long while ago, I made a Twitter bot named @theDesireBot. I was delighted to see that it made this very timely post:
Villanelle Bot: Poems in the Villanelle Form, Created Using Random Posts from Twitter
The villanelle is a really great poetic form, and has a really interesting structure. In the first stanza, the first and third lines rhyme… and are repeated throughout the poem. They alternate, and server as the final lines for the subsequent stanzas. At the very end of the poem, they come back together and finish the poem as a couplet.
The Twitter Bot That’s Really Good at Winning Contests
“Another very large percentage of the things I won were tickets to events. I did manage to go to an event that I won tickets to, but the majority of them were for concerts and events in other countries that I obviously couldn’t go to […] I won a lot of cool stuff too though, and getting mysterious things in my mailbox each day was pretty fun.”
Why Because Bot: A Twitter Bot That Answers Questions By Combining Tweets Together
Why Because Bot is another Twitter bot I just launched last week. The bot finds tweets starting with “Why is…” and also finds tweets containing a sentence that starts with “It’s because…” and pairs them together.
Flickr API Searches and Improving Accuracy
A large part of this is also the viewer, who fills in the narrative between the text and the image. Even if it doesn’t make sense, we’re natural storytellers – we want things to make sense. And so we try, looking for commonality even when none might exist.
Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wants
Sometimes, the results are really funny. Sometimes, the photos are way off the mark. The joy and pain of bots, I guess. If you do the Twitter thing and are game for some silly updates every 30 minutes, I invite you to check out Desire Bot. And if you decide to follow the bot, I’d consider it a kindness.