Twitterbot Killed the Video Star

December 21, 2019 4:22 PM

"when journalists ask permission to use a tweet, a robot posts it here" BBBreaking News is a bot by Corey Johnson inspired by Andy Baio [via.]
posted by chavenet (6 comments total)

Whoa! This is cool.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 6:04 PM on December 21, 2019 [2 favorites]

It is cool! I wish it were a twitter feed.
posted by HeroZero at 6:28 PM on December 21, 2019 [3 favorites]

I wish it were a twitter feed.

Words that I would never expect to see together.

But really, this is pretty cool. For some reason I thought it was going to be collecting the user requests and not the original tweets, which is obviously much dumber.
posted by Literaryhero at 7:44 PM on December 21, 2019 [2 favorites]

This is a super cool blog, but definitely take a second to read the hilarious search query that makes this possible, taken from Baio's initial tweet posted in the OP:

video ("did you take this" OR "on all of our platforms" OR "can we have your permission" OR "did you shoot this" OR "irrevocable permission to share" OR "with full credits to you" OR "and its affiliates" OR "permission to use in perpetuity" OR "on all of our platforms" OR "with full credit to you" OR "can we use your video" OR "did you shoot this")

Thanks, media outlets that have to fit legal boilerplate into a single tweet request!
posted by chrominance at 11:03 PM on December 21, 2019 [9 favorites]

Whoa, bad night at LAX eh.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:57 AM on December 22, 2019 [1 favorite]

There's a quote for this situation: "fuck you, pay me".
posted by save alive nothing that breatheth at 8:45 AM on December 22, 2019 [6 favorites]