birdbotbird

Twitter used to have a bad habit of naming internal tools, services, processes, really anything, after birds. Sometimes puns, sometimes rhymes, sometimes just a bird name attached to a noun for no apparent reason.

This bot would output a bird name every few hours.

With this bot I once again learned that the spigot gets boring, but I also learned the value of filtering your word list. I’m pretty sure it’s accidentally generated at least a few offensive/nsfw definitions just by using the dictionary.