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Twitter Definition Bot
The purpose of this project was to make a twitter account to which anyone could tweet at and it would respond with the definition of the tweeted word
>>>>>>> Expanded on README


How?

First we checked twitter's JSON feed of recent tweets @DefinitionBot (the feed can be seen here) and parsed out new tweets.

From there we extracted the word and put it through Abbreviations.com's API to get a definition. We chose Abbr's API because it provided its definitions in a consise format, which is important considering that Tweets are maxed out at 140 characters.

After that we parsed the XML response to get the definition of the word. From there we concatenated the definition along with the word into a tweet that was directed back at the original user.

Isues and Bugs we faced included a problem where @DefinitionBot would tweet back two definitions at a user, issues that arose when the tweet was too long, and determining whether tweets from twitter's stream were new or just repeated

Programming Language: Python

APIs Used: Twitter API, Abbreviations.com API

A few Modules used: JSON, simpleJSON, BeautifulSoup, urllib2, tweepy