What are your favourite Twitter bots?

January 28, 2022 3:48 AM

This is for some research I'm doing - please share your most useful, funny, creative, eduacational or just plain interesting Twitter bots!
posted by atlantica to Computers & Internet (19 answers total)

@inform_dreams @EmojiTetra @nyt_diff @nyt_first_said @pomological @everylotnyc @sysquotes are all excellent
posted by wesleyac at 4:23 AM on January 28, 2022

Also @gone_things, @brand_new_facts, and @needsref
posted by wesleyac at 4:35 AM on January 28, 2022

And as a compliment to @pomological, @new_fruits is fun :)

(ok i think i'm done for real now)
posted by wesleyac at 4:43 AM on January 28, 2022

@PowerfulNames
posted by zeptoweasel at 4:48 AM on January 28, 2022

I've always enjoyed @NFL_Scorigami
posted by telegraph at 5:25 AM on January 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

Every Color
posted by Crystalinne at 5:42 AM on January 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

I still giggle when I see RTs of @cybereveryword, if only for the avatar.
posted by jquinby at 6:38 AM on January 28, 2022

Bosch Bot.

Frog and Toad Bot.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 6:40 AM on January 28, 2022 [2 favorites]

Every Color reminds me of the excellent @threat_update

And while I'm back, @bird_facts_bot is also lovely.
posted by wesleyac at 6:52 AM on January 28, 2022

@TheDreamRot is the southern gothic bot, which I enjoy immensely when it pops up in my feed
posted by the primroses were over at 7:13 AM on January 28, 2022

@elegiac_ai
@plantpoetrybot

It's more of a meta-bot, rather than a proper twitter bot, but The Infinite Campaign is interesting. [disclaimer: I consider the artist who made it a friend. I had nothing to do with it.]
posted by eotvos at 7:55 AM on January 28, 2022

This is a bit of a meta-suggestion, but in case you don't know about it, you can view the Lists that people have added an account to by going to twitter. com/[handle]/lists/memberships. Most bots have been added to many bot-specific Lists, so this is a very fruitful way to discover new ones.
posted by dusty potato at 8:35 AM on January 28, 2022 [2 favorites]

Category: creative
https://twitter.com/MagicRealismBot
posted by Emmy Rae at 9:34 AM on January 28, 2022

I like https://twitter.com/alttxtreminder - sends you a DM if you don't provide alt text for an image.
posted by cCranium at 10:09 AM on January 28, 2022 [1 favorite]

@NeoliberalJohnSnow - ok maybe not exactly a Twitter bot in that I think it’s run by a person instead of automatic bot, but I could be wrong!
posted by carabiner at 10:15 AM on January 28, 2022

Frog and Toad bot is my jam! The other two that make me laugh, mainly because I have them both on a list together, are @everylot_usps and @intownagain (just tweets the lyrics to the boys are back in town again on repeat.)
posted by jessamyn at 10:56 AM on January 28, 2022

I'm (inexplicably, IMO) one of only 38 followers of @frontpagesbot, which a few times a day tweets an image that's a collage of front pages of the websites of CNN, Slate, NYT, Reuters, WSJ, NPR, FoxNews, Breitbart and the National Review. (Always the same sites, in the same order)

I find it really interesting to see which stories appear or don't on the various pages, as well as differences in how they're played, photo choice, etc. You don't get a ton of detail at the size they're presented, but you can read the headlines.
posted by brentajones at 1:16 PM on January 28, 2022

@glitchtvbot, @colorschemez, @tinyspires, @GumbyScreens
posted by dame at 7:42 PM on January 28, 2022

@wiki_tmnt, which is based on a project from an acquaintance of mine.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 9:12 AM on January 29, 2022