When Bots Get Busy

09 February 2011

A couple of days ago, the Mayor of Detroit tweeted about RoboCop.

@MT There are not any plans to erect a statue to Robocop.Thank you for the suggestion.

— Mayor Dave Bing (@mayordavebing) February 7, 2011

Naturally, my RoboCop bot, since it always replies to tweets about RoboCop, responded:

@mayordavebing I'd buy that for a dollar!

— Bixby Snyder (@for_a_dollar) February 7, 2011

This was a hugely popular topic on Twitter, so much so that the bot sent out over 8500 tweets in 3 days. That's insane! Anyway, as it happens, I've been tracking the tweets I send out, and at the start of the year I finally started putting the data into a database, so I could do some metrics. So now I have some charts of the last 30 days of my twitter bots.