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This Twitter bot (Deathwatch) kind of has the right idea, nice way to pseudo-automate the process at least. The downside though is that it can throw a lot of fa
by dmschulman 10y ago
This Twitter bot (Deathwatch) kind of has the right idea, nice way to pseudo-automate the process at least. The downside though is that it can throw a lot of false positives, just because a startup stops tweeting from a particular account doesn't mean they've perished:
http://deathwatch.io/ http://deathwatch.io/
- caspii 10y agoCreator of the bot here. Thanks for the shoutout!
- LionessLover 10y agoI predict that within 10-20 years we will have AI bots that automatically come up with ideas for bots (trivial versions of this surely are already possible) - and that also have an add-on that lets them monitor forums and post "thanks!" notes to any comments mentioning them. I'm curious what people like you, or your descendants, will be doing by then :-)
- caspii 10y agoPsst, that's actually already happened
- caspii 10y agoBy the way, US and UK versions here: http://deathwatch.io/us/ http://deathwatch.io/us/ http://deathwatch.io/uk/ http://deathwatch.io/uk/
- thunderwar 10y agoMuch better implementation and good indicator of death if they haven't tweeted.