November 17, 2021

Twitter Bot Idea Dump

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A rough idea list for creating a twitter bot.

Plant Truman Show

Architecture of the twitter bot that converts external sensor data into text and video

A plant personality that lives in the twitterspace, that tweets timelapse video of the plant + generative text based on the actual sensor data from a flowerpot.

References

@grow_slow by Nicole He
PiRecipes – A Timelapse Webcam Application by Tom Igoe

4-Letter Word ASCII Framer

Example structure of using Context Free Grammar for ASCII art

Example structure of using Context Free Grammar for ASCII art. It decorates a 4 letter word using different symbols for vertical, horizontal and corner places of the frame. — Example structure of using Context Free Grammar for ASCII art

text that reads "ouch", which is decorated with wavy frames in ASCII art

A twitter bot that tweets short words overly decorated with frames that are made from ascii art. The frames of the ascii art are generated from a set of designated unicode symbols.

References

ASCII Art Borders

fuck computer
— Fuck Every Word 2.0 (@fckeveryword) November 9, 2021

WordArt generator

A twitter bot that tweets short words in 90s WordArt aesthetics – crappy 3d texts that are spinning/floating in weird ways. The WordArts are tweeted in .mp4 formats, which is generated procedurally using p5js.

References

makewordart.com

Questions / Issues

How can I prevent my bot from tweeting potentially harmful/abusive words?
When I am using an api that tweets random words, is there a database that I can use as a denylist?