Sounds like this guy missed the memo that @horse_ebooks was a pair of artists in NYC.
FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
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Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#12Awesome project! Any chance you'd be interesting in publishing the code for the bot so we could make variations of happybots to spread the <3 and not-so-subtly protest the suspension of said happybots?
Here, maybe this can give some inspiration (not a bot, but still the best thing I saw all day) http://www.reddit.com/user/stoked_for_you
How the hell does he get so many upvotes? He has hundreds of comments with nothing but run on sentences and they all have dozens of upvotes each.
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
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I like this as a concept. The tricky part is now there are two audiences that the system has to avoid alienating -- it has to seem friendly and not creepy to the recipient, and it has to be harmless and non-embarrassing from the perspective of the 'sender'.
Well, I imagine it's some kind of app that you allow to post on your behalf. When you allow it, you know what it will post. If you really want to go the extra mile you could ask each new member to tick off which messages they don't feel comfortable sending out before authorizing the app. But I think that is unnecessary or release 2.0 Moreover if you relate back to the group, the person can see the larger scope and, m…
It could also be as simple as the bot selecting a feel better buddy from a circular queue and asking that person to send a nice tweet to someone who needs it. This could either be "handwritten" or via some web app that authenticates on Twitter and lets you manually send a canned tweet (not unlike a share button)
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I imagine it's some kind of app that you allow to post on your behalf. When you allow it, you know what it will post. If you really want to go the extra mile you could ask each new member to tick off which messages they don't feel comfortable sending out before authorizing the app. But I think that is unnecessary or release 2.0 Moreover if you relate back to the group, the person can see the larger scope and, m…
It could also be as simple as the bot selecting a feel better buddy from a circular queue and asking that person to send a nice tweet to someone who needs it. This could either be "handwritten" or via some web app that authenticates on Twitter and lets you manually send a canned tweet (not unlike a share button)
Yes that would be a solution too. But I think it increases the barrier to action and participation of the members of the group. I don't use that much Twitter so I would probably miss on the request for help.
I think the automatic bot style is the way to go. The importance is not the "really thought out message" that someone can send, while rather the low latency, the immediacy of the reply to those that need it. So timing is more important. At least this is what I felt from the positive comments you showed off in your blog post. :)
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#15Neat idea. It is amazing how often those phrases come up.
It's also interesting that people would find comfort in a random tweeter passing them a hug. Imagine in real life some strange guy coming up and hugging you - a bit odd to say the least. Not that a virtual hug is the same thing, but one would think people would be more often turned off than happy, but apparently folks on twitter are different than I think they are.
It's a shame twitter keeps banning you - you would think they wouldn't want to keep wasting their time reviewing it and give you a once and for all yes or no.
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here, maybe this can give some inspiration (not a bot, but still the best thing I saw all day) http://www.reddit.com/user/stoked_for_you
How the hell does he get so many upvotes? He has hundreds of comments with nothing but run on sentences and they all have dozens of upvotes each.
Because the intersection of utter surreality and being really really nice to people is ... to me, both awesome and hilarious.
I would suspect but have no idea how to test that the upvotes are coming from fans of it as performance art who're following the user, rather than particularly from people already interacting in the original thread.
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here, maybe this can give some inspiration (not a bot, but still the best thing I saw all day) http://www.reddit.com/user/stoked_for_you
How the hell does he get so many upvotes? He has hundreds of comments with nothing but run on sentences and they all have dozens of upvotes each.
Unrelenting, freewheeling positivity, what's not to love?
"negativity is just positivity with more electrons" -- stoked_for_you
I don't read reddit usually, but I could see myself reading a bit of that comment history every day.. that account reminds me of the "saying" "I strive to be the person my dog thinks I am." :)
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#18Neat idea. It is amazing how often those phrases come up. It's also interesting that people would find comfort in a random tweeter passing them a hug. Imagine in real life some strange guy coming up and hugging you - a bit odd to say the least. Not that a virtual hug is the same thing, but one would think people would be more often turned off than happy, but apparently folks on twitter are different than I think they…
Well yeah, but maybe in real life they wouldn't announce to the room that they need a hug in the first place. Public Internet spaces have different social norms.
Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#19Neat idea. It is amazing how often those phrases come up. It's also interesting that people would find comfort in a random tweeter passing them a hug. Imagine in real life some strange guy coming up and hugging you - a bit odd to say the least. Not that a virtual hug is the same thing, but one would think people would be more often turned off than happy, but apparently folks on twitter are different than I think they…
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Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
#20Awesome project! Any chance you'd be interesting in publishing the code for the bot so we could make variations of happybots to spread the <3 and not-so-subtly protest the suspension of said happybots?
The code is here : https://gist.github.com/abeppu/6958565 (also linked from the article text.) I'm fine with other people making lots of happybots. I just hope no one would adapt the code to, say, harass or bully people who are already feeling shitty.
Happybot deployment on the way.