July 11: Buzzfeed's Katie Notopoulos, Matthew Lynley, and Nathan Pyle publish "92 Free Ideas." Number six reads as follows:
A bot that tweets out "PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW" every time the Pew Research Center issues a new report.
July 14: @pew4pew sends out its first auto-tweet of a Pew report:
PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW http://t.co/G9qhr9dIed
— Pew for Pew (@pew4pew) July 14, 2014
Life is beautiful.
If you're into this kind of thing, I highly recommend Leon Neyfakh's Boston Globe profile of Darius Kazemi, who has written a wide array of great Twitter bots and other automated delights; my personal favorite is @TwoHeadlines, which, as you probably guessed mashes up random headlines:
Uber's fingerprints all over Hamas-Israel conflict
— Two Headlines (@TwoHeadlines) July 20, 2014
Vox product wizard Casey Kolderup also has extremely solid bot game. @streetsnsheets is great (ex.: "Bohrium in the streets, Erbium in the sheets") and @businessman_exe is, while difficult to describe, kind of a masterpiece:
Bud Sprinkles, Internal Data Manager at Globotrode pic.twitter.com/o89kBhW7VD
— Businessman.exe (@businessman_exe) June 16, 2014
If you want to learn how to write these yourself, there's a great tutorial here.
