I don't know if I'd count it as "big," but once upon a time I had some bots that auto-tweeted stuff. Cheesebot, griffinbot, etc. Most of it was just learning how to interact with the API and whatnot.
One of those accounts, one that just tweeted status outputs from various machines on the network that were deliberately strange looking and cryptic (but made sense to me) gathered a lot of followers with some discussion on what it was. That amused me to no end, but I decided that was enough and turned it off. Now, you can't even do that kind of stuff.
I don't know if I'd count it as "big," but once upon a time I had some bots that auto-tweeted stuff. Cheesebot, griffinbot, etc. Most of it was just learning how to interact with the API and whatnot.
One of those accounts, one that just tweeted status outputs from various machines on the network that were deliberately strange looking and cryptic (but made sense to me) gathered a lot of followers with some discussion on what it was. That amused me to no end, but I decided that was enough and turned it off. Now, you can't even do that kind of stuff.
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