PrankOps Automate Your Memes
summary
A prank Twitter bot replies to every tweet from a target, initially as spaghetti code running on Debian on GCP and later refactored into containers and a KV database with docs; it posts joke videos, supports summon-by-mention, and actually reaches every tweet and wins laughs from the feed, but API tokens are revoked when rate/cost limits hit, forcing a switch to alternative hosting and architecture while preserving the original prank behavior. tokens revoked
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