TwitterSay

Generates fake tweets, using markov chains on previous tweeted content.

Components

An harvester

The harvester supports the Twitter statuses/filter endpoint options (follow, track, locations) plus

• country will be translated in locations (gps) arguments

• lang will ignore tweets in other languages

$ node harvester.js --country Canada --lang french # will harvest tweets in french, from Canada

A command line generator

The generator supports the following options

• block generate a predefined block among tweet, paragraph or bible
• minwords generate a sentence with at least X words
• maxwords generate a sentence with at most X words
• lang generate a sentence in this language
• html produce an HTML output (links,twitteruids)
• lang generate a sentence in this language

$ node generate.js --lang french --block tweet --html # will output an HTML tweet-size sentance, beginning with a french word

A webapp

The webapp continuously display random, generated tweets.

$ node app.js # or npm start

Requirements

You need a Redis instance to hold harvested data and generate sentances.

Install

$ npm install -d
$ cp config.js.sample config.js

Configuration

Edit the config.js file.