Twitter Bot Info
Hello, I've written some bots on Twitter, all just for fun, and I
don't mean to annoy anyone at all. If you say something which
triggers a response, and you would like to not have that happen, just
contact me here with your Twitter handle, and
I'll add you to the block list. You can also just ping me on Twitter if you prefer.
The bots are:
* [@cat_in_field](https://twitter.com/cat_in_field) -- a cat playing
in a field.
* [@wayback_exe](https://twitter.com/wayback_exe)) -- a bot that
generates screenshots of some of the oldest pages online via the
Wayback Machine. Learn more [here](/wayback_exe).
* [@botgle](https://twitter.com/botgle) -- a bot that runs
multi-player games of Boggle four times a day. Learn more [here](/botgle).
* [@kaleid_o_bot](https://twitter.com/kaleid_o_bot) which takes an
image and makes it seem like you are viewing it through a
kaleidoscope. Definitely a bit of a work in progress. You can read a
little more about it [here](/kaleid_o_bot).
* [@IMG2ASCII](https://twitter.com/IMG2ASCII) which will take an
incoming image and make it look like ASCII art. You can read more
about it [here](/IMG2ASCII).
* [@UShouldFrameIt](https://twitter.com/UShouldFrameIt) which takes
images on Twitter and puts them in a picture frame.
* [@ARealRiver](https://twitter.com/ARealRiver) which generates a
river from emoji characters. The river meanders randomly from tweet
to tweet, passing cities, houses, etc, as it flows.
* [@RTsFromSpace](https://twitter.com/RTsFromSpace) follows a list of
NASA and other space-based accounts, and it retweets popular tweets
from that list. I made this because I like following those accounts
but they generate a lot of noise that I'd rather not deal with.
* [@EarthRoverBot](https://twitter.com/EarthRoverBot) is an imaginary
rover traveling from Maine to California. You can issue commands to help it on its way.
* [@USPrisons](https://twitter.com/USPrisons) is listing all of the
prisons in the USA.
* [@StckMrktStatus](https://twitter.com/StckMrktStatus) generates
fake, but occasionally plausible reports for why a stock went up or down.
* [@SearchTheSearch](https://twitter.com/SearchTheSearch) watches for
Twitter searches posted to Twitter, and then tweets them out.
Sometimes they are interesting.
* [@only_a_comment](https://twitter.com/only_a_comment) posts an
internet comment, but devoid of any context. Based on [justthecomments.com](http://justthecomments.com/).
* [@DarmokBot](https://twitter.com/DarmokBot) which tweets in
Tamarian, the language from the Star Trek TNG episode
'[Darmok](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok)'.
* [@PedanticMagick](https://twitter.com/PedanticMagick) which invents
interesting and very specific magic spells.
* [@SpaceJamCheck](https://twitter.com/SpaceJamCheck), which
[monitors the ancient website](/2014/01/09/spacejamcheck-space-jam-website-monitoring-on-twitter/)
for Space Jam.
* [@mitchc2_ebooks](https://twitter.com/mitchc2_ebooks), my own not
inspiring [ebooks account](/2013/12/03/ebook-yourself/)
* [@eachtown](https://twitter.com/eachtown) which is [iterating
through every populated place in America](/2013/10/16/each-town---listing-all-towns-in-america-on-twitter/).
* [@LifehackLifehax](https://twitter.com/LifehackLifehax) which
repurposes 'lifehack' content from Twitter and generates random
advice. Some of it is pretty good!
* [@horoscopish](https://twitter.com/horoscopish) which generates
randomish horoscopes just as good as the real ones.
* [@happened_today](https://twitter.com/happened_today), which tweets
out events that happened on this day in history.
* [@for_a_dollar](https://twitter.com/for_a_dollar), which was
triggered by any mention of Robocop.
[Bixby retired](/2014/01/01/requiem-for-a-twitter-bot/) in January 2014.
* [@iaminigomontoya](https://twitter.com/iaminigomontoya)
@iaminigomontoya, which responds to the word "inconceivable!", but
only if you are a follower. **retired**
* [@Betelgeuse_3](https://twitter.com/Betelgeuse_3), which responds
to saying 'beetlejuice' three times.
* [@initech_bill](https://twitter.com/initech_bill), which responds
to a number of terms from Office Space but only if you are
a follower. **retired**
* [@mirror_magick](https://twitter.com/mirror_magick), which responds
to "mirror mirror on the wall". **retired**
How Do I Make My Own Bot?
The code I use is written in Ruby. I've made it into a library called
Chatterbot,
which is available on Github. Use it for good, not evil.