

It features random images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s free online archive.

The art tweeted by this bot, also by Kazemi, was made by humans not algorithms. Reverse OCRĪnother algo art bot, and one of a few accounts on this list by Darius Kazemi, Reverse OCR draws random lines until optical character recognition software thinks it looks like a certain word. If Twitter were just these two bots tweeting at each other, I wouldn’t complain. Then there was the time Pixel Sorter started flirting with Bob Poekert’s Quilt Bot, which applies a quilt fabric pattern to any image. The results, like other forms of algorithmic art, are often beautiful. This arty bot by Way Spurr-Chen takes any image you tweet at it and resorts the rows of pixels according to one of a few predetermined rules.

Dear AssistantĪnother handy bot, created by Amit Agarwal, this one has answers to a wide range of questions-with the help of Wolfram Alpha, the intelligent search engine. The best bot is a useful bot, and this one proves its worth with a steady stream of videos that are newly available to stream on Netflix in the United States. (Oh, and never forget the time Olivia was chatting with another bot and Bank of America’s customer service account chimed in.) Netflix Bot Olivia will also reply to people who follow her, often with tweets more profound than any human could muster. Olivia isn’t real, but in many ways, she’s more real than many of the teenage girls whom the account emulates. Rob Dubbin accidentally created the bot while experimenting with language manipulation of real-life teenage Twitter accounts. Where it was possible to determine the bot’s creator, we noted it here, but who’s to say those people aren’t actually bots themselves? Olivia Taters To determine eligibility, we didn’t perform a Turing test but did require that the account be automated ( sorry, and still actively tweeting.
