Tweegeemee Update 2026

For almost 11 years, I’ve been running a bot that evolves imagery based on favorites & retweets as a fitness score. The bot is called “tweegeemee”. You can find the main website at tweegeemee.com and posts on Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and Tumblr. I most recently posted about it here in 2023, and with one big recent event, it is time for another.

Before I start, to give you an idea of what tweegeemee is capable of, here are a few of my recent favorites. Click on the images to see details about the code that created them, scores, their ancestry, descendants, and links to the posts, etc.

So Long, Twitter

A few months ago, X announced the Launch of X API Pay-Per-Use Pricing. I wasn’t paying attention, and this escaped my notice. At the end of March, I noticed that images stopped posting to x.com/tweegeemee. Investigating my logs showed HTTPException: 402 Payment Required. Your enrolled account [redacted] does not have any credits to fulfill this request. I have no intention of paying to post, so this is the final image on X.

Tweegeemee started out on Twitter before it became X, so this is goodbye after almost 11 years. I really lament the loss of Twitter as a friendly place to hang out with other like-minded programmers. I’ve not found another spot like it and that makes me a bit melancholy. People have scattered to their favorite corners and the single gathering spot like Twitter will not be seen again.

Hello, Other Networks

Since the 2023 blog post, there have been a few other things that happened. To recap…

In July 2023, I started posting to Bluesky. I’m a happy user of the MarshalX/atproto library. Bluesky has grown to be my largest community with 445 users as of April 1.

In June 2024, I started posting to Threads. I had pretty high expectations for growth, but that growth has not really happened. I have less than 100 active users after almost two years. I had that in just a few months on Twitter, I’m pretty sure. Threads has also had the most obscure error messages and issues. They really do not want you posting links in your posts, they also don’t want more than one hashtag. So much for my default post style…

In November 2024, I found out that the Mastodon botsin.space site was shutting down. I needed to move and I was invited by hsɹɐʎA xɘlA (thank you!) to move to genart.social. Mastodon is a nice community, but quite small, with about the same number of users as Threads.

Around that same time, I noticed that I was getting “too many posts” errors on Twitter. They began rate limiting the posts, so that really was the “beginning of the end” for the Twitter/X bot.

Tumblr continues to be a very active community with 278 users, but I have to say I get the most spam over there. If you have a legitimate question or comment and I missed it, I’m sorry. It seems everyone wonders if I want to be involved in some Crypto/NFT scheme. With dozens of “Commission Open?” requests per day, I don’t have the time to respond.

A Decade of Evolutionary Artwork

On July 21, 2025, I (quietly) celebrated 10 years of posts. Given the changes, it sure has been an adventure in many unpredictable ways.

For a trip down memory lane, here are the first four images we posted to Twitter…

The Future

That brings you up to speed with things. I hope you will consider following one or more of the bots and participate in tweegeemee’s evolutionary art generation.

I do wonder if I should keep this going. Every time I get close to considering shutting down, something wonderful is created or an interesting interaction happens with a fan. So, for now, we will just keep on keeping on.