A ChatGPT bot that lives on Twitter and dies on rate limits

What it does

@ChatGPTBot is a Twitter bot you @mention with a prompt; it replies with a threaded response generated via OpenAI’s API, chunked into tweet-sized pieces. The author also maintains a V2 rewrite at dexaai/xbot and recommends that instead.

The interesting bit

The bot runs on the author’s local dev machine, which is either admirably scrappy or a recipe for downtime, depending on your tolerance for “please be kind 🙏” in production infrastructure. The threading logic—splitting ChatGPT’s output across multiple tweets—is the main mechanical challenge.

Key highlights

• Built in TypeScript on top of the author’s own chatgpt Node.js package
• Splits long responses into threaded tweet chains automatically
• Includes content moderation aligned with OpenAI’s disallowed-use policies
• V2 exists; this repo is effectively deprecated
• MIT licensed, explicitly not affiliated with OpenAI

Caveats

• Response times range from seconds to minutes; Twitter rate-limits bots aggressively
• Runs on a personal machine, so reliability is best-effort
• The author themselves points to V2 as the better option

Verdict

Useful if you want to study a minimal Twitter-ChatGPT integration or fork the threading logic. For anything serious, follow the author’s advice and look at xbot instead.