Short list of Twitter bots

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Categories: Random
Posted on: 10th May 2009 by: Andrei

kickbee – http://twitter.com/kickbee_demo

The Kickbee is a fetal kick detector that Twitters when a baby kicks! Made by NYU ITP student Corey Menscher. (Presented at the ITP Winter Show ’08). For more info http://twitter.com/kickbee.

iambuttbot – http://twitter.com/iambuttbot

It monitors the #cobol channel on synirc and changes a random word to butt.

dungarmatic – http://twitter.com/dungarmatic

This is a bot running Python. It gets all it’s info and text from a few Jabber channels. It runs markov chains on everything said in some fairly active channels.

r0kbot – http://twitter.com/r0kbot

Made with megaHAL. It doesn’t reply to people but if sent a message with @r0kbot it will post a response.

officechair – http://twitter.com/officechair

An office chair that’s programmed with a gas sensor to tweet every time a programmer farts on it.