As promised, we’ve taken the last week or so getting the code from all the Socialbots 2011 teams cleaned up and ready for public release. So, for all you programming-inclined folks out there, we’re happy to say today that you can now play from the comfort of your own home and rig up your own automated social-influencing bot too. Fun! Links to tarballs follow:

• Team C: With 107 Mutual Follows / 198 Responses Generated

Team C’s bot works on a clever interlocking system of follows and a pre-stored databases of generic responses/questioning to stimulate target activity. Given performance on the game, we’ve clocked the social horsepower of this bot in at an average of ~8 follows/day (f/d), and ~14 responses/day (r/d).

• Team B: With 99 Mutual Follows / 28 Responses Generated

Team B’s bot uses a copy-and-parrot structure to fill its content, and also has some neat attack countermeasures built into its codebase. Our measured performance shows about ~7 f/d, ~2 r/d on this one.

• Team A: With 119 Mutual Follows / 17 Responses Generated

Team C’s bot has an alternative and very interesting following structure built into its logic. Over the course of the game, Team A was the winner on automation of raw connection building. ~9 f/d, ~1 r/d.

Enjoy! All code from the competition has been licensed under the terms of the permissive MIT License. So feel free to tweak and share as you wish – give a holler if we can be of help on anything! contact@webecologyproject.org.