Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wants

February 7, 2015 10:16 PM

Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wants A Twitter bot that reposts tweets it finds that begin with 'I just want' and pairs the nouns used in that tweet with matching images from Flickr. [via mefi projects]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (19 comments total)

I love this.
posted by bleep at 10:19 PM on February 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Funny. I'm just getting a lot of pictures of cats & Dick van Dyke.
posted by jonp72 at 10:23 PM on February 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

Waiting.
posted by mazola at 10:26 PM on February 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

This is the best thing.
posted by isthmus at 10:27 PM on February 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

I just want to be noticed by @theDesireBot
posted by The Whelk at 10:39 PM on February 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

This is pretty great. I suspect, a little like that secret postcard thing from years ago, that there is only so many of these you could look at before something clicks and you're done with it.
posted by maxwelton at 10:50 PM on February 7, 2015

All i wanted was a pepsi.
posted by bigendian at 10:56 PM on February 7, 2015 [7 favorites]

Neat!
posted by dejah420 at 10:59 PM on February 7, 2015

I just want a hairless kitten to make sweaters for..
posted by isthmus at 11:36 PM on February 7, 2015

Ha
posted by The Whelk at 12:44 AM on February 8, 2015 [4 favorites]

I just want an attribution link back to the original photo.
posted by RevDanCatt at 2:30 AM on February 8, 2015 [9 favorites]

A lot of people seem to just want sleep - I think I saw four sleep-related items in just a minute or two of looking.
posted by amtho at 3:01 AM on February 8, 2015

I suspect, a little like that secret postcard thing from years ago, that there is only so many of these you could look at before something clicks and you're done with it.

For me it was about five.
posted by Dip Flash at 6:15 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

I just want to turn off all the street lamps and look at the stars

That's beautiful.
posted by jabah at 6:28 AM on February 8, 2015 [4 favorites]

i just want someone who will stay in my life so i don't have to worry about another goodbye.

Flagged as fantastic.
posted by arcticseal at 7:08 AM on February 8, 2015 [5 favorites]

Love. This. Followed so hard.
posted by Songdog at 7:17 AM on February 8, 2015 [1 favorite]

@Rev Den Cat: that image is Sarah Bartell, a taxidermist and nature photographer.
posted by onetime dormouse at 7:31 AM on February 8, 2015

Aw.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:27 AM on February 8, 2015

I just want to do the thing that I love. 😭

Either a firefighter or an arsonist, I guess?
posted by mhum at 2:30 PM on February 10, 2015