Twitter Trivia Bot

After a suggestion from @abacab, I have created a little Twitter trivia bot. This bot posts a random fact from RandomFacts.org to its Twitter account every hour. There are some really interesting things coming through on it, so if you like trivia, give @triviabot a follow. I will be adding more features soon, such as being able to ask it questions and to play simple trivia games, but I have to work out the details first.

If anyone has any other suggestions for bots or other Twitter scripts (or anything for that matter), feel free to drop a comment.

January 9, 2008 7 Comments , , , ,

  • motownmutt

    Can you add a tinyurl for the complete story? I’ve noticed that a lot of the tweets are truncated, leaving me wondering about the rest of the story on a few of them.

    As it stands, it’s cool. I’ll follow.

    moto

  • http://www.pantsland.com Brad Kellett

    Yeah, that is something I will be doing ASAP. Most of them are actually under the 140-160 character limits, but I will add more smarts soon. Cheers!

  • http://konterfai.com Pierro

    Howdy;
    Since yesterday I am also a follower
    The “history” of this bots interests me too !
    How create a “Twitter bot” like this one or
    @overheard as an example?

  • http://www.pantsland.com Brad Kellett

    Pierro: This bot is a Python script that posts using the Twitter API, which is called by a cron job on my server every hour.

  • http://konterfai.com Pierro

    @Brad – Thank you for your quick feedback.
    Im not a programming_nose; therefore, i
    wanted to know it …

  • http://anywherechat-chat.com Cerises48

    would love to know if Twitter Trivia Bot is available to use on my site

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