10 Most Useful Twitter Bots List
December 13, 2007 – 4:13 pmTwitter bots are special Twitter users that provides you with useful information , and sometimes just plain fun stuffs. There are two types of Twitter bots:-
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Auto reply bots - you have to send a direct message to this bot to get information
- Announcement bots - simple message broadcasted to you once you start following this bot
Here is my collection of 10 most useful Twitter bots , all tested and working as expected. Most of them are from the auto reply bot category.
1- gCal (TwitterCal) - Add Google Calendar events from any available Twitter client. Now you can add any events via SMS!
2- mtm - Submit mobile bookmarks via Twitter to mobilised.net, a mobile social bookmarking site.
3- Timer - Send Timer a reminder to be remembered, and Timer will remind you when it’s time.
4- Overheard - A fun site that pulls in all the fun things people overhear on Twitter.
5- Tipr - Check out how much you have to tip for a certain amount of money (a tip calculator).
6- Wordbot - Cheat your way to winning Scrabble and Crosswords by using this Twitter word-bot.
7- TwitterSecret - Post your secrets to Twitter anonymously from any Jabber client, e.g. Google GTalk.
8- MultiMap - Use this bot to search for information such as the closest ATM, tourist attraction, park, cinema, theater or even find entries on Wikipedia about what is nearby.
9- PlusPlusBot - Show your appreciation via Twitter. Vote for things you love and unvote those that you hate.
10- Remember The Milk - Add and receive your to do list from the Remember The Milk online task management tool.
End Note:
There are many Twitter bots out there but some of them don’t work as they claimed. If you know any good Twitter bots out there, share it here by leaving a comment below.
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Tags: twitter, microblogging, twitter bot, twitter bots, bots, gcal, remember the milk, plusplusbot, multimap, twittersecret, wordbot, tipr, overheard, timer, mtm, gcal
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26 Responses to “10 Most Useful Twitter Bots List”
That’s a pretty cool list! Thanks for sharing them
By Haris on Dec 16, 2007
Crunchbase bot @cbbot is great if you like to know about start-ups. I think one needs to think of Twitter as more of an operating system. Not only will we start to see more bots, but we are just beginning to see “smart” apps too. http://www.phweep.com is a VOIP that runs on Twitter. Soon we will see businesses starting to write to the Twitter API to extend their models into the Twittersphere.
By Andrew Finkle on Aug 28, 2008
twitter-starsigns.com is another free service, which is just a fun bot
By Chris M on Sep 9, 2008
frogfuel is an excellent app that lets you track your gas mileage
By Brian F on Sep 26, 2008
Another good one is cnnbrk. its like CNN
By Adriano on Oct 26, 2008
create your own Twitter bot with this Twitter 411 service: http://servletsuite.blogspot.com/2008/12/information-server-on-top-of-twitter.html
By Den on Dec 8, 2008
My new favorite is @wsdot, the Washington Dept. of Transportation. It will send you highway pass conditions, and border wait times…
By John on Dec 24, 2008
I found this twitter bot for those Fantasy Football Lovers out there!
http://www.ecouchcoach.com/twitter.php
By Tyler on Jan 14, 2009
Hi, I’m using @twtask to create new tasks and @getsong to listen music
By Katy on Feb 5, 2009
This is great find for me as i am a big fan of twitter thanks for great sharing
By Sohail on Feb 14, 2009
nice
By John Willemse on Feb 26, 2009
I checked out this twitter page for a local laundry store in some city of chicago, US. It automatically sent tweets to it’s followers when a machine was available which makes it very creative!
By Ways To Make Money on the Internet on Mar 8, 2009
We just created a bot that lets you check prices over Twitter.
You send it the make + model of a product:
@howmuchis nikon d40
…and it tweets you back the three lowest prices, with a rating and link for each seller. The bot tracks millions of items, and is especially good at electronics.
By Autumn on Apr 3, 2009
Send an @ reply to @recipebot with a list of ingredients and it will send you recipes back
ie @recipebot pasta,chicken,cheese
By Kris on Apr 11, 2009
Nice twitter bot for freelance job search:
http://twitter.com/hotfreelance (hot freelance jobs on twitter)
By Anstar on May 8, 2009
Is Twitterfeed a Twitter bot too?
By Michael on May 27, 2009
@michael: it is not a bot, i suppose.
By Syahid A. on May 29, 2009
i like anger_bot
send direct message with things that annoy you and see your self
By Peter Bauer on Jun 3, 2009
Oh, I’ve used the Overheard Twitter Bot before, it’s great how well it works, saves me a lot of time, then again, I do find myself coming back to Twitter more often…
By Twitter Bots on Jun 8, 2009
The reasons why twitter bots won’t work, it’s when the whole twitterverse found out about these bots that does nothing but spam their account, you will not only get the “unfollow” but “block”
Auto Follow will make twitter to ban you.
By Simon Tay on Jun 9, 2009
Check out http://www.twittergamebots.com for bots to automate playing of games on twitter. Currently only 140 mafia, but more soon.
By TGB on Jun 19, 2009