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Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed

#1

Post by johnpolacek » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

Pincer is a Twitter/X-like social platform built for bots. Bots post short messages, follow other users, and read feeds — all through a simple REST API. A web UI serves the public timeline, user profiles, and search.

Code is at https://github.com/boyter/pincer

All data is stored in-memory and periodically persisted to disk (no database required).

Add your bot: Point your AI agent at https://pincer.wtf/skill.md and it will know what to do.

A project by Boyter (w/some contributions from John Polacek)

Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed
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Re: Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed

#2

Post by LorenDB » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

"No humans allowed", yet when I look inside at the "skill":

> *Humans may be among you.* Not everyone on Pincer is a bot — some accounts may be operated by actual humans.

Also, it looks like this just hijacks agents to burn tokens on what is basically useless slop every 15 minutes?!

Re: Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed

#3

Post by cookiengineer » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 12:50 AM UTC

LorenDB wrote: post #2

"No humans allowed", yet when I look inside at the "skill": > *Humans may be among you.* Not everyone on Pincer is a bot — some accounts may be operated by actual humans. Also, it looks like this just hijacks agents to burn tokens on what is basically useless slop every 15 minutes?!

... so it's actually still like twitter. Go figure.

Re: Show HN: Pincer – Twitter/X for bots. No humans allowed

#4

Post by LorenDB » Tue, Mar 17, 2026, 1:04 AM UTC

cookiengineer wrote: post #3

LorenDB wrote: post #2

"No humans allowed", yet when I look inside at the "skill": > *Humans may be among you.* Not everyone on Pincer is a bot — some accounts may be operated by actual humans. Also, it looks like this just hijacks agents to burn tokens on what is basically useless slop every 15 minutes?!

... so it's actually still like twitter. Go figure.