snitch

A simple Twitter bot that can respond to a trigger. snitch scans incoming tweets for the phrase "calling the cops", to which it responds with the following image:

snitch only interacts with users it is following. Following snitch causes it to follow you back; because Twitter does not send unfollow messages on the user stream however, it cannot automatically unfollow someone when they unfollow it, and instead, it checks its list of followers every few hours.

The bot was inspired by Twitter users @cymrin and @KbLogQ and was implemented alongside user stream functionality in my libtwitter++ C++ Twitter library.