I can’t wait for the follow up to the third email.
Hi Jeff,
Are you ok? I talked to your neighbor yesterday and they said you were home, so I’m not sure why you didn’t answer the door or respond to my previous three emails about Hired.
The robots are getting smarter.
Back in the early days of Twitter, I made a Twitter bot. All it did was search for tweets containing “zing!”, and then it would reply to that tweet with “OH SNAP!”.
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zinger_search = Twitter::Search.new('zing!')
zinger_search.each do |msg|
if msg["text"] =~ /\szing(!+)$/i
tweet_id = msg["id"]
Msg.transaction do
unless existing_msg = Msg.find(:all, :conditions => ["tweet_id=?", tweet_id]).first
reply_tos = [msg["from_user"], msg["to_user"]]
formatted_reply_tos = reply_tos.compact.collect { |r| "@#{r}" }.join(" ")
from_user = msg["from_user"]
msg_text = "#{formatted_reply_tos} OH SNAP!"
new_msg = Msg.create(:reply => msg_text, :from_user => from_user, :tweet_id =>tweet_id)
twitter.post(new_msg.to_s)
end
end
end
end
Unsurpisingly, it got shut down after a month or so. But surprisingly, it was pretty well loved by the people it replied to. I saved some responses which I sent to Twitter as a plea to let me keep autosnap alive (which they rejected).
thisisconlan: Holy crap. @autosnap is like the sycophantic friend I never had! I’m in love (so to speak).
Cianmm: @alancostello bursts into uproarious laughter Oh, how I love@autosnap
benofsky: @autosnap lol wtf
CannonKnapp: @autosnap haha my A-MAZE-ZING @tweelove got an auto OH SNAP!
theadb: @autosnap lol wasn’t expecting that
harrisj: @senorcorazon If you end your tweets in ZING! (with an exclamation point), then @autosnap will back you up on twitter…
Nourn: I actually just found out about this from fetching my replies, but @autosnap replies to your messages that end with “ZING!” Try it out.
flickrlovr: @autosnap bwahahahaha.
Phatemokid: hahahahahahah awesome @autosnap
theferf: ROFL! Just got pinged by @autosnap > “End a tweet in ZING! and I’ll snap you. It’s not spam if people love you.” Kinda funny.
duffbluff: I am definitely following @autosnap after the unexpected snap I received! Lmao
MySecretSelf: @autosnap Made my profile public just so you would OH SNAP me..
SatelliteFeed: @autosnap I haven’t gotten snaps since college! Awesome!
brenjamin: @autosnap heh.. cool.
willia4: Ok. @autosnap might be the best bot on twitter.
danauer: @autosnap I love you.
EarthaDelights: Haha… don’t think I’ve ever seen @autosnap before. I like it.
BS_Rob: @bafadam @autosnap is pretty awesome.
bafadam: @fhorton @autosnap is brilliant.
Fhorton: @AronHead Holy fuck, I’m totally following @autosnap
johnbrougher: @autosnap We need more “OH SNAP!“s around here. My hat is off to you, sir/ma’am.
JPhilipson: @autosnap it’s people like you that make teh internetz awesome again..
emesser: WTF? @autosnap? That’s… a handy service. I think.
vojha: @autosnap LMAO…
miahz: RT @_gudo lol @autosnap | The things up with which people come…
_gudo: @DontHateBeHated haha.. yeah.. i just ZING ’d and @autosnap hit me w/ the OH SNAP! lol…
GeminiAce: @autosnap I don’t know why that cracks me up so much. lol!
LouTreize: Amazing! End your tweets with a Zing! and you get snapped from@autosnap
ELROSS: @autosnap That…..is freaking awesome. Thank you.
fmll: .. hahah has anyone seen @autosnap ? Just made me chuckle.
nicksieger: @kofno hope you enjoyed the reply from @autosnap as much as I did :)
frsvirtual: this is late, but i thought it was funny i got “oh snap’d” the other day by@autosnap lol heh. :)
wryknow: there’s an account on Twitter that any time you end a tweet with the word Zing! they’ll reply to you with OH SNAP! @autosnap. it’s awesome.
reedbraden: Apparently if you end a tweet in Zing!, @autosnap replies, “OH SNAP!” How incredibly pointless but amazing!
erob1: Because of @autosnap, I might end every tweet in ZING!
benleis: @autosnap Thanks! You’re awesome
jzy: this will grow like wildEfire @autosnap via @betsyphd
joshuawhite: @autosnap // you sir, are the greatest auto-twitter-replier-thing-a-ma-jiggy ever.