MeFi Projects

SAD CATS • PURCHASERS OF SPACECRAFT • MACHINE INTELLIGENCES WHOSE ID SUGGESTS THEY MAY BE USERS OF ICHOR (I made a web toy that generates short descriptions of very specific demographic groups, and saves the ones people click on.) [more inside]
posted by Sokka shot first on Jan 2, 2018 - 1 comment

Inspired by a tweet from (metafilter's own) Maciej Cegłowski, I made a dumb Twitter bot using Glitch one night that disemvowels 45's mouthspew on Twitter as if he were a dumb troll trying his best to annoy the mods. The resulting tweets are collected at @Dsmvwld_PTS. [more inside]
posted by snortasprocket on Jul 28, 2017 - 0 comments

Shut Up, Donny is an open-source extension for Google Chrome that lets Twitter users auto-reply to Donald Trump with one message: delete your account. [more inside]
posted by ludwig_van on Jan 24, 2017 - 4 comments

@autocompleterap is a Twitter bot that combines rap lyrics (from ohhla - scraping courtesy of @beaugunderson) and Google search autocomplete suggestions. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Jan 14, 2015 - 2 comments

Spare yourself the anguish of vainly trying to tweet a 118-character pull quote. [more inside]
posted by daveliepmann on Jan 22, 2014 - 2 comments

Metropho.rs is a geographic metaphor map that plots "X is the Y of Z" tweets by putting the "Y" label on the "X" location. Some nice coverage by the Atlantic Cities blog here. [more inside]
posted by creade on Jan 5, 2013 - 3 comments

Tweetchive is a little web hack I made to show your past tweets in various views. The primary view is a map, there are also views of pictures and text and links. It's not really a finished product, but it's useful enough I launched it. [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Jul 23, 2012 - 1 comment