One of the many great things about the Social Networking Site Twitter.com is the extensibility through its API. Not only can humans tweet babble about what they are doing, but scripts can post things to profiles. “ReTweet Bots” publish things a human would tweet about to their own profile, thus gathering information on a specific subject that is happening at a lot of places.
How much different is this to Twitter Search? Not much, other than you can subscribe (follow) the results (bot) so you are updated in your personal timeline. The bot is doing some self promotion also as you will inevitably click its tweet to see others (as it has mentioned you), and possibly visit the related website.
If you have been on Twitter a fair amount of time, you may find yourself surprised to be retweeted by one of these bots.
Here is a list of retweet bots discovered by myself and other users on twitter (List will be updated as your suggestions come in):
Currently Tweeting:
@Apollo13bot – Retweets when you say “Houston, we have a problem!”
@AllTheCheeses – ReTweets if you mention “cheeses”, mmm food..
@thedreamstream – ReTweets if you mention “dreamed”, zzZ.
@drunk_bot – ReTweets if you mention “drunk”, perfect to share those nights out.
@howtotweets – ReTweets if you mention “how to”, great if you want to help tweeple.
@LilAdele87 – ReTweets if you mention “Bored” and says “You should follow @funtimetweets then” @RandomRTBot – ReTweets something completely random from the timeline.
@Shutupmeg – ReTweets if you mention “shut up”, great for those who like to vent anger.
@Tea_robot - ReTweets if you mention “tea”, very British!
@TX_Rangers – ReTweets if you mention “Texas Rangers”, for those who like baseball.
@UbuntuTweets – ReTweets if you mention “Ubuntu”, great for the Linux folk!
and my own 
@wish_bot – ReTweets if you mention “I wish”, one day it will come true!
A reader “Kjekse” has created @ftwbot - ReTweets if you mention “ftw”, raise your fist to the sky!
Stopped Working:
@wootboot - ReTweets people who say “woot” (Last Tweet Aug 7th 2009)
@NoteRobot – ReTweets people who say “Note To Self” (Last Tweet July 29th 2009)
Leave a comment with links and I will update in due course.
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@JavaLeadBot if you mention Java.
And there was one about Pizza… LOL!
@WizardCM do you know what specific word or rule it tweets? I see Java, Ajax….hmm…
I know loads of these things.
Right.
http://twitter.com/TX_Rangers If you mention the Texas Rangers.
http://twitter.com/Drunk_Bot If you mention about being drunk.
http://twitter.com/thedreamstream If you mention about a dream
http://twitter.com/DarthVader_ If you mention losing faith, It will say, Come to the dark side ( Not so much a RT )
http://twitter.com/Twitt3rGeek If mention anything about tiwtter.
http://twitter.com/facebookgeek If you mention anything about Facebook.
http://twitter.com/Watson_MD If you mention Sherlock Holmes ( I think )
See, I know a lot of these weird ones. I follow some of them xD
http://twitter.com/apollo13bot
RT’s whenever someone says “Houston, we have a problem” or similar.
http://twitter.com/ftwbot
RT’s when somebody says FTW (its newly created by me
)
@Game_Bot ReTweet’s when it finds a tweet containing “video game”.
Sorry for double comment, but @Lol_Bot ReTweets when someone says “lol”
http://twitter.com/w00tbot
Just created to replace the dead wootbot, although a bit basic. I’ll play with the API over the weekend and see if I can make a bot that runs an update every 10-15 minutes.
It seems like the wootbot works, i just checked the twitter profile, and it have posted for 4 minutes ago or something.
@nicatronTg
The wootboot acctually works.
@TheWorldOfBeta Retweets anything with “Beta” in it.
I noticed you have a bot listed for Ubuntu, so how about Mac OS X.
https://twitter.com/MacOSXTweets
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Hi, found this useful thanks.
Added TweetToDoList bot using this. I did choose a pipe that did not include my own bot though.
Thanks and Regards,
@Duncan Well it’s supposed to retweet when you say anything with the work “Java” in it. The WTF bot doesn’t work for me either. xD
Possibly the best is http://www.twitter.com/firefoxsux
coz firefoxsux not only retweets other people’s bad experiences with firefox but also gives them suggestions
And the retweets are funny!
How do you create a robot that sends a Tweet every time someone mentions a word. For example: IndianaJones_ always Tweets whenever someone mentions ‘snakes’.
I have made a bot @duncsweb_ctopic Tweets when the topic is changed in duncsweb
Re your list:
Only “cheeses” retweeted me promptly when I tried to start #TwitterBotGame by posting this to trigger retweets: #TwitterBotGame DEAR SOCIALIST HACKER: BORED, i DREAMED a LUV NOTE TO SELF & TX_RANGERS, DRUNK on TEA & CHEESES. I WISH it said, SHUT UP.
(I made my sentence too long to retweet.)
The rules I posted: #TwitterBotGameTweet with keywords of bots that retweet you, e.g., 13 triggers (in caps) in previous tweet. Bots @ http://bit.ly/SvL6s etc.
In your August list, missing or suspended, as of 1/7/10: drunk, tea, tx_rangers, dreamed, bored.
Still working: shut up, cheeses, NoteRobot, (& NoteToSelfBot but last entry was 12/6).
Didn't check the others.
Others, not listed, working: @DearRobot. mention “dear ____”. @redscarebot mention communism, socialism or derivatives of those words (but it's not an autobot).
There is a dignity bot, a “note to self” grumpy bot, used ot be naked, roads, and Egypt and “love yourself” as well as “mask”
@miridunn
Is the bot “used to be naked”? Or is it: There used to be bots about “naked, roads, Egypt” etc