automatically-generated-tweets

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  Program in use

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  Program in use

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  Program in use

Inspiration

I wanted to make a bot like this for some time now. Someone told me that I wanted to make a 'markov bot', so I wrote my own markov chain algorithm to analyze the tweets.

What it does

It takes the most recent 200 tweets from a user or several users, runs a markov chain on them, and returns the output.

How I built it

I built it with NodeJS , the Twitter REST API, and Electron to make a pretty GUI for the end-user.

Challenges I ran into

The twitter API module I am using runs its callbacks asyncronously. This was a problem as I have GET statuses/user_timeline in a loop so it runs as many times as there are usernames to fetch tweets for. However, since it runs async, I have to put the markov chain and tweet generation in the callback(and by extension, the loop) so that it would not return [undefined] because it completed before GET statuses/user_timeline

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm proud of the fact that we had a good 5-10 minutes just laughing at the output of my program

What I learned

I learned how to use electron, what markov chains even are, and

What's next for automatically-generated-tweets

I hope to make the generated tweets make sense, and to screen them to make sure that they are not 1:1 copies of tweets a user has made.

Built With

• bootstrap
• electron
• node.js
• twitter