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A twitter bot that uses markov chains to simulate tweets from any user.
Checkout @sim_tweet for the bot on twitter
Anybody is free to make a pull request to add functionality. If you have an idea but don't want to implement it feel free to open an issue too. Check CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.
The bot uses Tweepy to access the Twitter API.
It looks for mentions on twitter. Valid tweets it will respond to are where the tweet includes @sim_tweet and @username (where @username is the username of the user to be mimicked).
The bot gets the users last 200 tweets and builds a markov chain of each space separated word appearing in their previous tweets (words except @mentions and t.co links). The bot then uses that markov chain to create a new tweet that looks like something the user might write.
You can email me at tom@bowdens.me if you have any questions about the implemenation or contributing, but I'll probably respond sooner if you create an issue.