Kon is hooked up to Twitter. He watches IRC and generates random lines based on what he sees on IRC, he then sends these lines to Twitter. You can also chat with Kon on IRC.
A chat bot is a humanlike conversational character.
Its conversational skills and other humanlike behaviour is simulated through artificial intelligence.
It often acts as a virtual assistant and it can have its own visualisation through an avatar
or it is faceless. We expect that through the years every conversational chat bot will grow into a real virtual human.