It tweets possums. Every hour. Why would you break this?
As I considered this, and the question of what Twitter is worth if its strangest automated denizens get the boot, I considered another pressing question: Won’t somebody think of the possums?
“My heart sank when I read the news. I read it right after I finished several meetings at work and went to a lunch break and it basically knocked me out for the entire day,” says Sam, the 25-year old from Slovakia who operates the @PossumsEveryHour feed. “I couldn’t do anything, and just watched the notifications feed of people thanking me for running the bot.”
Sam built @PossumsEveryHour after graduating high school because he wanted to experiment with some of Microsoft’s automation tools. He was a fan of Lauren Monger’s webcomic, and decided to dump a bunch of possum images into the bot’s data set before assigning it to a Twitter feed. Voila. The legend of @PossumsEveryHour was born. “I forgot that I never turned it off until I had API failure emails coming in,” remembers Sam.
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