An Interview with a Poet Who Made a Pokémon Twitter Bot

7/13/16

A Wild Nidoran (male) Appeared in Izhevsk, Russia

You may have seen a lot of Pokémon on Twitter recently. Todd Anderson has, too, and he loves it and he wants more of it.

Anderson is a poet, primarily, but his work crosses borders with technology. Yesterday he created Pokemon Go Bot, a Twitter bot that places a random Pokémon in a random street in the world and takes a screenshot, which it posts to Twitter. We caught up with Anderson, who is running the Wordhack Biennial at Babycastles this month (featuring a lot of people who’ve been written about in Technical.ly Brooklyn) about the bot.

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