Twitter can be used as a device-independent, global command line that sits on top of a large user-base.
— Twitter Fan Wiki, January 2008
Despite the rules concerning the Twitter API use having gotten stricter throughout the years, Twitter remains a popular network for bot makers and enthusiasts, which can be easily proved by the variety of bots operating on it:
Some example bots include:
- @censusAmericans: tweeting the census one real American at a time
- @congressedits: shows anonymous Wikipedia edits that are made from IP addresses in the US Congress
- @Betelgeuse_3: based on the “obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse” from the 1988 movie Beetlejuice
- @infinitedeserts: an infinity of deserts
- @JustDiedBot: tweets about celebrity deaths once they are posted on Wikipedia
- @bartleby_scrvnr: responds to @ mentions using lines from Bartleby, the Scrivener
- @riverlevel_1867: one of 2,400+ water level-monitoring UK Twitter bots
- @GenerateACat: generates a drawing of a cat when someone follows or tweets at it
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Maintained lists¶
Lists maintained by the Botwiki team¶
- Bots posting polls
- NYC bots ?
- XKCD Bots: bots inspired by the xkcd webcomic
General¶
- The Omnibots list, maintained by Tully Hansen
- @everyword-alike bots, maintained by @hugovk
- Bots in the tiny_universe, maintained by @hugovk
- Music bots, maintaned by @ASchoenbot
- The Botsistance, maintained by @EthanBeihl: Bots aligned toward making hell for the powers that be. Some serious, some frivolous. #resist
- Activist bots, created by Leonardo Flores
- Self-care bots, created by Claire S.
- Chatbots on Twitter, created by Sam Schmir
Can I give a Twitter bot as a wedding gift?
— byron hulcher (@hypirlink) September 8, 2016
Science, education¶
- Scientific literature using Twitter bots, maintained by Alexis Verger (see related article)
- Bots watching Wikipedia, by R. M. Livingstone
- Gallery, library, archive and museum bots, maintained by Neal Stimler
- Museum Bots, maintained by John Emerson
Non-English bots¶
- Bots tweeting in Finnish, maintained by @hugovk
- Bots tweeting in German, maintained by Esther Seyffarth
- Bots tweeting in Spanish, maintained by @isa_arch
- Bots tweeting in French, maintained by @White_fangs