Simple Haskell webapp: Generate random tweets using Markov chains

Using markov chains is fun until it all goes wrong. My Twitter bot sadly seems to have become infatuated with Justin Bieber <i>sigh</i><p><a href="http://twitter.com/markov_chains" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/markov_chains</a>

Running @FoxNews into it:<p><pre><code> #UN Security Council, General Assembly evacuated due to hold joint military exercises </code></pre> <i>"New Tax Bill: DADT"</i> was another good'un.

Reminds me of Mark V Shaney.<p>"I spent an interesting evening recently with a grain of salt." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney</a>

This is a lot like an app I wrote a few years ago for a programming contest. It uses the same technique to generate random invention descriptions using patent application abstracts: <a href="http://eurekaapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://eurekaapp.com/</a> (Yes, I realize how unreasonably slow it is)

&#62; Maple says nlognlogn, which could solve NP party?<p>And you are all invited.

It seems that it needs to sample more tweets. I've done 5 tweets, and 2 of them were exact tweets that I sent (they were only a few words long, and I guess they had words that I rarely tweet, so it had few or no other ways to go once it started repeating the tweet)<p>Edit: Then again since there are only a few words in a tweet, you'd have to go a really long way back to really ensure that won't happen. Possibly farther back than Twitter will let you.

This reminds me of an old Perl script I made with Markov chains for a very similar sort of random nonsense text generation.<p>I think I fed it some text from a few usenet kooks/conspiracy theorists and something like Alice in Wonderland and got quite a few laughs a long time ago, though it was made to allow you to combine arbitrary texts into a single chain.

@jennyholzer:<p><i>OFTEN AS OFTEN AS OFTEN AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE</i><p>Very apt, but what n-gram length is being used? n=1 is my guess, since "as often as" is a common English construct. Obvious feature request: tweakable lengths.<p>edit: I'd make the fix myself and send a pull request but I don't know haskell and am too lazy to figure it out.

I'll leave this here, since it's loosely on-topic (of Markov chains:) <a href="http://www.joshmillard.com/garkov/" rel="nofollow">http://www.joshmillard.com/garkov/</a> — Garfield strips with MC-generated text instead of the original. I've had countless hours of fun with them.

This is hilarious! Thanks for putting it up, I'm laughing my arse off at what it's generating!

Unfortunately, if you do as I did and tweet what it generated, you can't use it again, as it would be eating its own output; and generating nonsense from nonsense is not so entertaining.

&#62; And a new every day, I'll bring The first bill, since that was a beer Me too!. I don't, but some PHP servers aren't set up 64 pixels.<p>Pretty accurate stuff.

Cool! It's great to see real-world haskell in action.

<a href="http://twitter.com/chimpinson" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/chimpinson</a> (php)

How long until the link expires?

@allah<p>So, you've a direct connect to the One?