#generative project

Black Ops 3 Twitter Bot

I decided to go the hard route and create a Twitter bot. To be honest, it was hard trying to find a key word. I couldn’t think of anything I really wanted to have my bot retweet, but I did try a few things. First, I tried “kitten” and I ended up retweeting pornography. I got the same result when I did “love” and even “poetry.” Because of this, I decided to do something that would probably not give me any porn whatsoever, and I did “Black Ops 3.” I figured it would be a good topic since Black Ops 3 is coming out tonight at midnight. Everyone is so siked about it on twitter, so why not?

Even though I really enjoyed the videos we watched about creating songs from random cut ups and what not, I loved giving a bit of coding a shot. Those who reviewed my twitter bot were all very supportive, saying they didn’t think they could ever make a twitter bot because they don’t even know how twitter itself works, let alone coding. It was extremely simple, to be honest, but setting it up took a while and was kind of annoying. Not to mention, I managed to lose half the contacts in my phone during the process, but I’m not even sure if I can blame that on my e-mail being linked to the twitter bot process or not, I have NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED.

Generative projects are extremely interesting to me. With the ones I reviewed, they were so different every time. There is almost no way anyone could do the same thing. My twitter bot retweets 5 tweets every 5 minutes (I think, that’s how it seems to be, I didn’t do THAT much coding), so every time someone looks at my twitter they see something new. Yes, there is somewhat of a connection between each tweet since they all have to do with Call of Duty, but none of the people contributing know they will be retweeted by my bot, so there isn’t a correlation between the tweets.