“I watched a command-line quiz application he’d made, and I was impressed. “I had no idea what it was then,” he continues. “There was a kid in a lower class that people talked about in awe - ‘he knows programming!,'” explains Shalvah. Shalvah says he got into development back in 2013, during his final year of secondary school (high school). The idea for comes from Shalvah Adebayo, a backend developer born and raised in Nigeria, and currently living in Lagos. The handy bot (aka DownloadThisVideo) offers a way to download both videos and GIFs from Twitter’s site for easier offline viewing. You may recall seeing requests to the Thread Reader app bot to “unroll” a long thread into readable copy, for example, and in more recent days you may have spotted Twitter users tagging a newer bot, on tweets with a video file attached. Not all the bots on Twitter are spammers or democracy hackers.
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