5 ms·
Came across one the other day, just by mentioning in a post "blue plaque", got instant like and retweet. This started me thinking of a little game - what post
by Zenst 10y ago
Came across one the other day, just by mentioning in a post "blue plaque", got instant like and retweet.
This started me thinking of a little game - what post with the limitations of 140 characters could you post that would trigger the attention of the most bots for automatic retweets/likes?
It's on my to do list, when bored, but I'd imagine others have had comparable thoughts and may of already had a go.
Anybody got any other examples?
- caseysoftware 10y agoMention Beiber and you'll get a swarm of likes, Rts, and responses. It used to be a personal game for me to get a friend to mention him and watch the swarm. It used to kill the usefulness of your notifications for at least a day. ;)
- brndnmtthws 10y agoI don't think it works https://twitter.com/brndnmtthws/status/840680198102228993 https://twitter.com/brndnmtthws/status/840680198102228993
- tradersam 10y agoWhy, just why, did you add the kissing emoji?
- brndnmtthws 10y agoThat's the most important part
- qbrass 10y agoTechnically, the post said to mention Beiber, not Bieber.
- brndnmtthws 10y agoYikes, I messed up.
- caseysoftware 10y agoOh man, disappointed that doesn't work anymore. I guess the bots have moved onto other oddballs. :(
- rubiquity 10y agoJavaScript and Angular
- laktek 10y agoPretty sure mentioning "growth hack" would trigger lot of bots.
- bigdubs 10y ago#maga the trump astroturfing army is aggressive
- astrodust 10y agoThere's some terms that are absolute lightning rods and that's one of them.
- hanniabu 10y agoIs that an acronym?
- smcl 10y ago"Make America Great Again" - Trump's election slogan
- jabgrabdthrow 10y agoCan't tell if serious or sophisticated subversive meme magician! If anyone actually can't tell try this and give an analysis of your experience with the Hateful People of america
- wtf_is_up 10y agoIt does seem to bring the vitriolic regressive leftists out, you're right.
- jsemrau 10y agoLet's play! Looks like I am losing in that game ... https://twitter.com/DropinIn/status/840695021066051584 https://twitter.com/DropinIn/status/840695021066051584
- jdormit 10y agoI was trying to build an online presence as an indie game dev for a while, #gamedev and #indiegames generated a lot of bot retweets. Bot retweets tend to cascade, too - other bots that may have missed the original tweet pick up the retweets. Finding the right hashtags can be a pretty good way to get (human) eyes on your message, due to that exponential growth factor.
- doctorless 10y ago> Bot retweets tend to cascade, too There's a reason for that. Twitter offers an API to get a massive stream of tweets. They used to provide it in various sizes, leading up to what was called the "firehose". Now they only have a streaming API with filtering (but gets a very small, but constant random sample of tweets), and the "firehose", which is all of them -- and you have to pay for it through a third party partnered with Twitter. When you're doing large-scale datamining, the firehose can be invaluable, albeit expensive (Depends, but is anywhere between $300-$6000/month). But bot makers don't always have that kind of scratch, so they will just consume the public API, which is generally good enough.
- jsemrau 10y agoMy bot is listening to this and it is really awesome! I was surprised to learn how many people on Twitter daily post 'i am bored' up to 300,000 per day! With that amount if data it is readily possible to build robust ML systems.
- Zenst 10y agoI found another https://twitter.com/Sitcom_Bot https://twitter.com/Sitcom_Bot triggered by the word "comedy" it seems.