A simple cloud-ready Twitter bot, written in Python with Tweepy and Markovify.
tweeter-robo was born from curiosity. I’ve always found the idea of generative art fascinating, and I’ve been amazed at the sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes hilarious artistic projects I’ve seen Twitter used for. As a platform, Twitter makes it trivially easy to disseminate your work, and gives immediacy and interactivity through social sharing. So, when I saw how easy it was to use Twitter with Tweepy, I gave it a try with my own literary Twitter bot, and blogged about the process so that other Pythonistas can learn along with me. The bot uses Tweepy and Markovify, and is designed to be deployed to Heroku. The code is, of course, all on my GitHub. If you want to see it in action, check out @MechaBronte, my Twitter bot trained on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.