On running creative online bots with ten thousand followers

I have recently passed two big milestones with my work around creative online bots. Last year marked 10 years since I created my first Twitter bot, modeled after the Bartleby, the Scrivener short story. That was also the start of Botwiki, a catalog of artistic, entertaining, and occasionally useful online bots, and a collection of tutorials and other resources for making them. And earlier this year, the number of unique followers of all of the dozens of bots I run surpassed ten thousand. Botwiki is celebrating 10 years today!!https://botwiki.org/blog/a-decade-of-botwiki/#botwiki #CreativeBots #botmakers #botmaking #anniversary #TenYears — botwiki.org (@botwiki@mastodon.social) 2025-07-15T12:50:59.512Z Nice, there are now officially 10,000 people following these bots.Very humbling to create something so many of you are enjoying! Thank you all! — Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online) 2026-01-29T14:05:25.914Z I will admit, both milestones kind of crept up on me. Between the…