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So yeah the bot changed its name from "bbcbasicbot" because it got shadow banned on Twitter 4 years ago. 2019. Simpler times...

Who knew posts with infinite loops of expletives would constitute "unusual activity"

@bbcmicrobot This must have been before I followed because I only remember the bot outputting a gif rather than raw text. So I guess you realised that was the main problem rather than the loops :)

@rhm yeah actually it was @kieranhj who suggested GIFs, which turned out to be the perfect solution...

@bbcmicrobot Maybe we don't need to ask it to repeat infinitely, but just a very large number of repetitions?

@bbcmicrobot I wonder if the AI detects sarcasm, inserting random synonyms? 🤣