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Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by lem72 » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

quaffapint wrote: post #15

Neat 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…

I am sure you are right but I gave a hug to a stranger and they held on for dear life and when I went to say bye they said the most sincere thank you I have ever heard. Sometimes when you need a hug, you just need a hug.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by tomphoolery » Thu, Oct 31, 2013, 11:50 PM UTC

Awesome! It was a pleasure to read your very compact source code, BTW.

edit: Can we rename this bot "The Feels Good Man"? ;)

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by uses » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 12:33 AM UTC

God this makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful, and I'm not being sarcastic. Seems like snark and chuckling and inside jokes is all we ever see. You made something that could turn someone's day around, or more. Wonderful.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by rubyfan » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 12:42 AM UTC

This made my day

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by pm » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 12:46 AM UTC

Of all the things in the article, the guy's reaction to @EnjoyTheFilm is the thing making me chuckle. As much as I support this idea, I really can't help but laugh at someone's petty misfortune.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by brown9-2 » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 1:49 AM UTC

Lovely idea.

Seems like twitter has already suspended the account.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by ZoF » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 2:29 AM UTC

ogreyonder wrote: post #28

abeppu wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, sorry I'll change that. I figured the chances that a random reader would have started, but not finished a TV series from 22 years ago would be pretty slim (whereas @EnjoyTheFilm specifically targeted those people) ... but apparently not. My bad. Updated : spoiler removed; just the reaction is shown now. Again, my apologies.

Haha well, if you put it that way now I do look foolish! I mean, I can count the number of people I know who watch Twin Peaks on 1 hand so yeah, you should've been safe. But I'm sure you can imagine my surprise at reading Laura Palmer and thinking, "why do I know that name..." I'm not upset or anything so don't feel bad! I was pretty amused at the irony, actually. The 'ruined my evening' part was more for comedic eff…

Bran dies.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by abeppu » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 2:34 AM UTC

Late this afternoon, I started @FeelBetterBot back up (I had kept it 'off' for most of the day, while lots of people were looking at it) ... and it lasted less than 3 hours before getting shut down again.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by GhotiFish » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 3:15 AM UTC

awesome, in the classical sense of the word. Something that evokes awe.

awwwwwwwww.

Re: FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better

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Post by tricolon » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 3:20 AM UTC

abeppu wrote: post #38

Late this afternoon, I started @FeelBetterBot back up (I had kept it 'off' for most of the day, while lots of people were looking at it) ... and it lasted less than 3 hours before getting shut down again.

A while ago I made a Twitter bot (https://twitter.com/HereHaveAKitty) with a friend. We used the face.com API to detect sad faces in photos in tweets (as well as ASCII emoticons) and reply with a photo of a kitten. It lasted about as long as yours before being suspended. We tried again (https://twitter.com/KittenDelivery) but that too was shut down.