Bots are cooler than youIf you are on Twitter and you are all about being ‘woke’ this year, meld your experience with Tumblr. With close to 31,000 followers on Twitter, there’s a lot more to this satirical account than meets the eye. There is a lot of algorithmic planning that goes into the generation of these tweets. @Thinkpiecebot actually has two levels of these: the main formulas, such as ‘Do [GENERATIONAL GROUP] Really Love [RANDOM WORD/PHRASE SELECTED FROM ANY CATEGORY]?’, and a top-level formula that puts a publication prefix in front of one in six tweets. As of this writing, @thinkpiecebot has main formulas and 25 variables.

Source: The Hindu February 05, 2019 06:47 UTC