This project takes in a Twitter user's handle and outputs a tweet in the style of that user.
This application is registered under a Twitter Developer account.
The Python file json_reader.py records up to 3200 tweets by using Twitter's API and the Python library tweepy.
This application is compatible with Twitter's extended tweet format of 280 characters.
This application uses Markov Chains to generate text realistic to the specified user.
The tweets recorded from json_reader.py are saved into a .txt file, parsed by the C++ file markov.cc, and stored in a map data structure.
The map data structure is traversed until an end line character is found or the tweet becomes too long.
Running this code requires a Twitter Developer's license with consumer keys and authentivation tokens.
To run this code compile json_reader.py and add the Twitter user's handle as a command line argument as shown below.
python json_reader.py [handle]
Then compile markov.cc and execute the file as shown below.
Once markov.cc is compiled the executable can be executed a many times as desired and produce a unique tweet.
g++ markov.cc -o new_tweet
./new_tweet