@OnAccidentBot, the Twitter bot that corrects you on purpose

b/Web publicado por u/JWinslow23 March 21, 2018, 04:14:28 PM

@OnAccidentBot, the Twitter bot that corrects you on purpose

Recently, as a little exercise, I made a Twitter bot called On Accident Bot, which detects tweets that use the improper phrase "on accident" and corrects them with "by accident".

If anyone wants explanation, clarification, or source code, please don't hesitate to ask!

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u/_iPhoenix_ March 31, 2018, 11:20:41 PM

This is really cool.

I suggest that it should comment on the post instead of retweeting. It would be more noticeable/helpful/annoying to the user who typed it on accident.

u/gbl08ma April 02, 2018, 02:43:09 PM

Why did you shut it down? Was the stream of incorrect tweets too much for it to handle?

These kinds of error-correcting / "grammar nazi" bots are very popular on Reddit. They also seem to get banned from many subreddits, perhaps because many people find the corrections condescending or that they break the flow of conversation. On Twitter it would be different, though, as unlike what happens on Reddit, Twitter threads don't really get to see all the replies listed... so it'd be pretty easy to ignore such bots.

u/JWinslow23 April 06, 2018, 09:48:14 PM

Quote from: gbl08ma on April 02, 2018, 02:43:09 PM
Why did you shut it down? Was the stream of incorrect tweets too much for it to handle?

These kinds of error-correcting / "grammar nazi" bots are very popular on Reddit. They also seem to get banned from many subreddits, perhaps because many people find the corrections condescending or that they break the flow of conversation. On Twitter it would be different, though, as unlike what happens on Reddit, Twitter threads don't really get to see all the replies listed... so it'd be pretty easy to ignore such bots.

It got restricted from performing write actions by Twitter, meaning I cannot do anything with it. I tried to resolve it...again...but I don't think it's going to get unrestricted.