Cute Pets Austin: It's Live ... and Adorable

Our latest deployment is a Twitterbot called Cute Pets Austin.

Every fews hours, it locates a pet that's a recent Austin Animal Center intake, and posts a tweet with information on that animal.

Our Twitterbot is part of a national network of Cute Pets Everywhere bots, which started in Denver. The Denver project was implemented by Code for America fellows and community volunteers. You can read more about the Denver project here:  What Open Data is Doing for Denver Dogs

The Austin implementation is a "fork" of the Denver code, rewritten in Python by Open Austin member Luqmaan Dawoodjee. It's been published as open source.

Open Austin has been working with the Animal Services staff on open data issues. We hope that more information -- and community produced tools -- will be available soon.