Projects





Twitter bots

Twitter / PHP experiements
2015

In 2015, I experimented with writing a few Twitter bots around social issues.

The first program scraped an online police fatality database. The bot would then tweet a police fatality every eight hours - in response to the frequency of police killings.

 

 

I also created Tattle.computer, a website/twitter bot that would tweet your IP address and location every time you visited the website. A user would visit the URL tattle.computer (now expired). The program would use a geolocation database to then roughly determine the users location. In order to not get banned from Twitter, the program would then tweet a visitor’s location every ten minutes.

While this seems to be a gross privacy violation, the goal of the site was simply to get users aware that this data was being harvested and used by companies all the time.

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