How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes

Meet @DearAssistant, a Twitter bot that is like a mini version of Siri. You can tweet your questions in plan English and the bot will reply with an answer. →

The Twitter bot is internally using Wolfram Alpha so there’s a whole range of questions that it can answer. Here are some questions that people have asked @DearAssistant so far:

• How many calories are in Diet Coke? (link)


• When was Mahatama Gandhi born? (link)


• What is the distance between city A and city B (link)


• Who directed the film M (link)


• What is the price of Kindle Paperwhite (link)

You can also ask the bot for word meanings, weather conditions, language translation, to convert between time zones, date calculations (how many days until Christmas) and more.

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This story, How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 08/03/2013 under Google Docs, Twitter, Internet.

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