Nanobot: A Tiny Little Twitterbot Framework

Nanobot: A Tiny Little Twitterbot Framework

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There’s been a lot of talk this year about bots and conversational interfaces becoming an increasingly important tool for software developers. A few years ago I wrote about a twitterbot that I created, and I’ve just pulled out all of the common logic into a Python framework that you can use to quickly create your own twitterbots by focusing on just the bits that make your bot unique.
Check out ‘nanobot’.

2014 Review: Day 8

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Taking an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time, as the last few days of the year slip by us…   My turn! Earlier this year I wrote about a little Twitterbot that I wrote to...

This Might Be a Twitterbot

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A while ago, I made a threat on Twitter that I was going to unfollow any account that wasn’t a bot. On an average day, I’ve been getting as much value out of these algorithmically-generated as I do from human-run accounts, it seems, whether it’s just...