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A classroom experiment in Twitter Bots and creativity

• zwass 12y ago
  I used to love writing Twitter bots. This one uses Markov chains seeded with text from today's top New York Times articles: https://twitter.com/kindanewsy https://twitter.com/kindanewsy I created a little starter kit for doing this with Python and hosted free on Heroku: https://github.com/zwass/heroku-twitterbot-starter https://github.com/zwass/heroku-twitterbot-starter
• jwcrux 12y ago
  Very cool. Twitter is a great ecosystem for providing useful bots. I, for one, am quite partial to my own Twitter bot, @dumpmon (http://twitter.com/dumpmon http://twitter.com/dumpmon) which crawls pastebin and other sites looking for password dumps.
• GuiA 12y ago
  Oh this is cool. I regularly teach programming to teenagers, this is giving me tons of ideas. Thanks! What programming language/libraries did you use for the course? What's sort of background do the students have? Over what period of time is the teaching occurring? I'd love to hear more details about all that.
  • jsmeaton 12y ago
    I'm not the author, just found it interesting. I'm sure you could find contact details on the authors site though.