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Bots

2016-06-14

I really like bots. Here's a list of Twitter bots I've made:

@new_taxonomies - tweets whenever there is an update to the NCBI taxonomy database
@gvillejunk - items posted to the Gainesville, FL Craigslist "free" section.
@hmmdarwin - Markov bot trained on the major works of Charles Darwin.
@meowhector - Bot about my cat.
@cappstories - True stories from Capp St., SF. Made using Cheap Bots Done Quick and Tracery.
@pizza_dolores - in dedication to my favorite Dolores Park vendor.
@every_omics - Random 'Omicses

I also maintain a list of bots and add to it whenever I find a new one. As of this writing, there are 3.9K bots: https://twitter.com/heyaudy/lists/bots.

If you want to make your own Twitter bot, I recommend https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/ which lets you create one using a generative grammar which sounds complicated but it's is really just writing a"choose your own adventure" novel using JSON.

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