<story><title>Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop</title><url>https://twitter.com/a_quilt_bot/status/514483044724776960</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wayspurrchen</author><text>Whoa! Didn&amp;#x27;t expect to see this here! One of the bots, @pixelsorter, is my bot which you can read more about here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wayspurrchen.com/pixelsorter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wayspurrchen.com&amp;#x2F;pixelsorter&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some background information: This first got started because I tweeted an image at @pixelsorter and @badpng (see the thread here: &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/wayspurrchen/status/514246071464521728/photo/1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;wayspurrchen&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;514246071464521728&amp;#x2F;p...&lt;/a&gt;, I wrote a blog post here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://wayspurrchen.com/blog/2014/09/the-eternal-robot-love-story-of-badpng-and-pixelsorter/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wayspurrchen.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-eternal-robot-love-...&lt;/a&gt;), which spawned a really interesting infinite loop. Eventually, the other bot&amp;#x27;s creator reset her bot and that infinite loop ended, but people caught wind of it and have been making my bot enter infinite loops with other image bots ever since.&lt;p&gt;I think @a_quilt_bot and @pixelsorter are a particularly interesting pairing though, because @a_quilt_bot can generate new sources of imagery that my bot can further resort, resulting in a neverending stream of new, automatically generated imagery. My bot is also rate-limited by the Twitter API (350 API calls per hour), so there&amp;#x27;s no technical reason my bot and another rate-limited bot couldn&amp;#x27;t keep communicating forever. I&amp;#x27;m actually really interested in this idea, and it&amp;#x27;s the center concept behind my next project idea.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop</title><url>https://twitter.com/a_quilt_bot/status/514483044724776960</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dividuum</author><text>Reminds me of the interaction between two automated amazon pricing algorithms: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.michaeleisen.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;?p=358&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>