Twitter Bots

Where does a twitter bot live? How much space does it need and how much resources? A local maxima in my biochemical signals of fun in a stressful post-confinement period, was the day I figured this out. We had some credits on Azure, which due to bad management weren’t spent that well. So we had to move all our process from a vm with a gpu and a big drive, somewhere else that was as cheap as possible and as ubiquitous as possible.

In two days we bought a Raspberry PI 4 with 8GBs of memory, on which I managed to install ARM versions of pytorch and created kron jobs for all my twitter bots. Twitter bots, then were transformed to a unique entity, which connected to any internet in the world, would post things on twitter once connected to very minimal electricity.

It was the most close to a hacking feeling thing I did and I loved it! It was like putting something in orbit. Also the separation of all this process to a different place which I a very rarely come in contact with, made me realize the power of artificiality under the light of its autonomy.