My Favorite Twitter Bot

Nearly a year ago I tweeted the following.

A twitter bot that notices when folks post screenshots from their phone. If it shows < 20% battery than it tweets to remind them to plug in.

— Chris Koerner (@ckoerner) July 10, 2015

It was always funny and frustrating to me when folks shared screenshots from their mobile phones with such low battery. For some reason the low battery bugged me. It’s like living on the edge, man!

So then today I get this reply.

@ckoerner check it out: @lowbatterymuch

— Rahat Ahmed (@rahatarmanahmed) February 3, 2016

Rahat actually coded up the damn thing! And it works really well. Even better, the source code is up on Github under an MIT license.

I was curious if I was the first to think of it. I wasn’t, which is cool. It looks from my sleuthing that the first mention was back in 2013.

I need to make a twitter bot that trawls through people's phone screenshots and bitches at them for not charging their damn battery.

— Texanus Giganticus (@couchsecurity) July 24, 2013

I love the Internet – and the people on it.