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I feel like anything related to twitter is very troublesome. They are very restrictive.

I tried to make an agregation of all the people I was following, and mining their 'about' text, and right off ran out of api requests quota.

Twitter Bot sounds good, like that Idea. Really like the idea of automation.

They're not allowed and if it's detectable as a bot it'll get shut down.

But they're still fun.

Actually they are allowed.

Good call.

My bots have always been @reply bots, hence my confusion.

In particular, I was doing stuff like this: "For example, sending automated @replies based on keyword searches is not permitted."