A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter streaming API

Re:A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter stre... by mootothemax on Sunday May 23, 2010 @03:24PM (#1372803)

This is a rather fun idea, I like it a lot :) So far I'm using a mix of PHP, C, and more PHP and have just set the bugger live here: https://twitter.com/markov_chains

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Re:A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter stre... by cmelbye on Sunday May 23, 2010 @04:31PM (#1372937)

Wow, yours looks like the quality is much better (especially so considering it just started learning a few hours ago). The OP's is a bunch of meaningless gibberish.

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Re:A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter stre... by mootothemax on Monday May 24, 2010 @07:51AM (#1374373)

Thanks! To be honest, I'm really quite scared by how often its tweets kinda-sorta make sense ;)

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Re:A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter stre... by mitjak on Sunday May 23, 2010 @06:15PM (#1373169)

Oh gosh. You just programmed a 13 year old.

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Re:A Markov text generator that learns from the Twitter stre... by mootothemax on Monday May 24, 2010 @07:50AM (#1374370)

I altered the engine to stop rejecting @ and # characters, and now it looks even more like a proper teenager ;)

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