This document outlines the development history of the Dissident bot from its creation in January 2017 to June 2018. It discusses improvements made over time including adding conversation mode, a TODO item to develop a Chomsky-Type-1 Grammar AI, and fixing a bug where conversation mode would spam the bot's username. It also provides details on the bot's configuration settings and methods used to detect spam, bots, and politicans spreading misinformation.

1. @dissidentbot
https://github.com/steveloughran/dissident/
@steveloughran // stevel@apache.org

2. January 2017

3. April 2017
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4. May 2017
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5. June 2017
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6. June 2018
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7. heckles
conversation
devops
self.txt
#{name}.txt
Feed
Mentions
DMs
./data
Control Plane
Data Plane
dissident.rb
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8. Application Lifecycle

9. The Firehose handler

10. TODO: Chomsky-Type-1 Grammar AI Agent

11. BUG: conversation mode spams @self
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12. @dissidentbot

13. @dissidentbot

14. config = {
myname: "dissidentbot",
consumer_key: "",
consumer_secret: "",
access_token: "",
access_token_secret: "",
reply_probability: 75,
self_reply_probability: 90,
minsleeptime: 20,
sleeptime: 10
}
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15. Spam
• URLs in message
• Reports by users
• Keywords
• IP Addresses
Bots
• Latency of response
• Tweet Rate
• Hours of operation
• # of followers
• Conversation vs Commentary
• Assert "facts"
Politicians
• "Alternative Facts"

16. https://github.com/steveloughran/dissident/