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Comment by jere | Hacker News Reader

1.3 million followers, eh?

Aaannd my headlines-from-1914 bot has 11 followers. tl;dr I suppose.

Your articles are fine, but you're missing one key component...pictures. If each headline had a pic I bet you'd be doing much better

Well, it would help if you added your Twitter handle when saying something like that. Like the idea actually.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

On the contrary! You need to post links to these articles.

I want to read all of those articles.

I absolutely love the history leading up to and around the first world war, I've read a good portion of the issues of Punch from those years. But a headline is only enough to arouse my appetite without bedding her back down.

Well, you can find the articles by googling the headlines. These are all from the New York Times and you should find the first result is a link to a pdf article there.

That's not how Twitter works

Yea, how Twitter works is it eats up 24 characters on a URL. No thanks. I figured the headlines were interesting enough on their own 99% of the time.

When your plan isn't working, it's time to re-evaluate.

FWIW, I'd also really like to see links to the articles. :)

The subject of your headlines is critical in my opinion. European news, or Americain centered, International? Popular news? Headlines that turned out very wrong, etc etc. There are so many subjects...

They're from the New York Times. The focus appears to be in order NY, America, Whoever America Is Currently Fighting, Europe, and the rest of the world. Plenty of amusing missed predictions (e.g. VESUVIUS MORE ACTIVE.: Mr Burlingham Says Volcano is Preparing for Another Eruption. - 01/13/14). July is going to be interesting....

Is this curated at all? It seems like 10% interesting, 90% very boring articles.

Nope. If it was curated it wouldn't be much of a bot. That's how most bots are, the owners just retweet the really good ones.

One idea would be to focus on certain keywords, but you'd miss a lot of interesting stuff.

I don't know if I agree on your percentages though. In the first 3 days, I read stuff about eugenics, Shackleton, a woman declaring martial law on a town (first time martial law had been declared since Civil War), etc.

both ideas are interesting, but photos are more interesting than plain text. so don't feel bad :)

please post the links to the articles

Now you have 21.

To be fair, theirs isn't a bot.

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