This week is ProcJam 2018: "Make something that makes something"!
I've been doing this series of articles on Twitter bots (using the #procjam tag), and saved one of the biggest hitters for this week: @MagicRealismBot. This bot has nearly 100,000 followers and a backlog of more than 15,800 tweets. It tweets out what I think can best be described as story prompts: fantastical ideas about places or people.
While I tried to collect 3 years of tweets, I only got about 3,200 downloaded from Twitter, going back to late June 2017. MagicalRealismBot tweets 6-12 times a day, so I may be running into the limit of what I can get with my free API account.
| Date | Text | Retweets | Likes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sat Sep 01 03:31:30 +0000 2018 | There is a strip club in Las Vegas where dreams take their clothes off. | 717 | 2350 |
| Tue Sep 25 03:32:35 +0000 2018 | A secret society of Marxists meet once a year inside a ruined cathedral to decide the fate of the human race. | 620 | 2533 |
| Thu Nov 23 15:18:57 +0000 2017 | You discover that you are a question mark in human form. | 1215 | 2187 |
| Sun Sep 02 07:31:33 +0000 2018 | A boy saves up his money in order to buy solitude. | 820 | 2629 |
| Thu Feb 15 07:22:43 +0000 2018 | A duke marries starlight. They have one child: A daughter who is made of darkness. | 786 | 2670 |
| Mon Aug 28 11:14:58 +0000 2017 | A carrot is elected President of the United States of America. | 1015 | 2450 |
| Fri Feb 02 11:22:08 +0000 2018 | A detective novel in which the killer is revealed to be a city. | 818 | 3187 |
| Wed Sep 05 07:31:41 +0000 2018 | A little girl knocks at your door. You answer it, and she hands you a galaxy. | 917 | 3463 |
| Sun Nov 05 15:18:08 +0000 2017 | A factory in Silicon Valley produces vast quantities of nihilism. | 1269 | 3366 |
| Sun Jan 28 03:21:54 +0000 2018 | There is a witch in Ohio that is 60 times more depressed than you. | 1158 | 3666 |
