I created a Twitter bot called @StinkpieceBot.

After assembling @WordsofMcCarthy, my Cormac McCarthy quote bot, I was interested in learning how to make something more complex. 

@StinkpieceBot is built with Tracery, a JSON-based tool for writing generative grammars. It uses about 100 formulas and about 20 types of variables to generate the kind of hard-hitting pop headlines you might find on Vice, Vogue, or Vox’s Twitter accounts.

@Stinkpiece is like @NoraReed‘s well-known @ThinkpieceBot… but with farts.

Yes, I am 7 years old.

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UPDATE:
@stinkpiecebot was suspended from Twitter.

Twitter did not notify me of the suspension, so it took several weeks for me to notice.

I appealed the account suspension. On the appeal form, Twitter asks you to, “Describe the nature of your appeal (for example, why you do not believe your account violated the Twitter Rules).” I noted that it did not appear that this account was breaking any of their Terms of Service and asked for clarification about how I might remedy the situation.

Twitter replied with the following:

 

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