Well, it seems like I’m not the only one who thinks that both Twitter and Left 4 Dead are awesome… Here are two Twitter bots that both look to L4D for their inspiration:

The first ‘bot’ is actually a group of 4 interacting bots, created by Tom Armatage. He’s not unfamiliar with Twitter and its API as he previously wrote a bot that makes Tower Bridge talk. The 4 L4D bots (one for each survivor) chat amongst themselves using (from what I can tell) in-game dialog. I can’t do them justice describing them here, so go visit Tom’s blog post where he talks about them in great detail.

The second bot is very much like my own, francishates (whose twitter posts can be seen at the top of the sidebar over on the right there). Found at ihatevans.com, this bot seems to be taking tweets from the public timeline and echoing anything that they hate. I’m not sure whether I should be impressed that madlep (of ubercharged.net and boomercharged.net fame) did pretty much exactly what I wanted to do with my bot before me, or angry for the exact same reason. Either way, hats off to the man for getting it coded and out the door. You are far less lazy than I!