If you’re interested in learning to code, bots can be a relatively easy way to get to grips with programming. How can I make a Twitter bot? Here’s a little project for the Christmas holiday… ...

11-30-2015 INNOVATION AGENTS How Rikers Inmates And Columbia Students Built A Twitter Bot–With No Internet In a new class, inmates learn to code behind bars.

Dear Assistant is Twitter bot answers your questions by querying Wolfram Alpha. It's host on Google Drive and you can write one yourself in a few minutes.

Merket has just posted the code that powers him, and has also divulged how he made Thorton seem somewhat realistic: the bot looks for tweets with the word "love" in them and tweets them as its own.