Sunday, March 10, 2013

@DearAssistant - your Virtual Buddy on Twitter

Sunday, March 10, 2013
Got a lot of random questions but don' t know whom to ask.Well.. you may sign in to twitter & give DearAssistant a try to get answers to your queries. DearAssistant is a twitter bot recently developed by leading Indian Tech Blogger & Enthusiast Mr. Amit Agarwal. The bot can handle straightforward queries without delving into any explanation.
Although twitter bots are not new, this one is unique because of its social & interactive nature.
It can handle queries related to Word analysis, weather data, General knowledge & information, translation, measurements and conversions as well as complex calculations.
Structure & Functioning of the Bot :
The bot uses Twitter API at the front-end to accept input from a user as a tweet.It uses Wolfram Alpha API at the back-end that powers its computational, knowledge & artificial intelligence.After fetching the answers from this API, the twitter API tweets the answer as a tweet to the end-user. The source code is written in Google Apps script & hosted on Google Drive.The source code is open sourced & you may check out Mr. Agarwal's step-by-step instructions to build upon it.

A chat with the bot :


 
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