queuesome | Feb. 5, 2022, 12:28 p.m.
What's better than one playlist with the song Born To Run on it?
Great Question!
How about an infinite amount of playlists that have the song Born To Run on them by the Boss man himself?
Buddy, do I have some news for you pal.
Introducing the Nearly Every Playlist project, a Twitter bot whose soul goal and purpose is to tweet out to the masses every playlist on Spotify containing the track Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen.
I'm sure you're curious already, so let's just get right into some FAQs.
FAQsQ: Why?
A: Why Not?
Q: What exactly is it and what does it do?
A: Simple, it's a Twitter bot that regularly tweets out a direct link to a Spotify Playlist containing the hit song Born To Run
Q: A bot? What is that? One of those machine learning AI things? How often does this thing tweet? Is my timeline going to be everything but mobbed with just awesome playlist reccs twenty 4 sev?
A: Lol no, you won't have to worry about that. Our Twitter bot is on a strict schedule. It's specifically programmed to Tweet at the start of every 5th hour so you can expect to only see about 5 Tweets a day.
Q: How many playlists on Spotify actually contain the 1975 hit Track Born To Run
A: No idea. Spotify doesn't make that info easily available through their API, only to the artist themselves. But based on how great the song is and its slapability, our algorithm projects there to be just under an infinite amount.
Q: If you don't know an exact number or have the ability to query a list of playlist containing the track, then how are you finding all these playlists with BTR on them?
A: An astute question. Let's just say that we have a very advanced an efficient, proprietary algorithm that takes care of all that. We definitely don't just go searching the Spotify database willy nilly, parsing through thousands of Playlists and Tracks each time until we find one that's a match.
Q: Ok, so technically this could just go on forever.
A: Forever is a long time, but to answer your question, yes (well, at least until the server the code is on bites the bullet. And by server, we do not mean an old raspberry pi that is plugged in next to my kitchen table that could be easily unplugged by someone tripping over the power cord).
Q: I guess I'm on board then. How does one go about subscribing to such an ambitious effort?
A: Easy! Just give us a follow on Twitter @botifyPlaylists