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.