New Twitter bot: @LatourSwag

I had a few too many drinks last night, and made a Twitter bot called @LatourSwag as a birthday present for Ben Abraham.

Basically how it works is I get the last 100 Twitter search results for “#swag” that also contain the word “and”. Then I grab the last 100 tweets from @LatourBot. I take every #swag tweet that’s not an RT and push it to an array. I take every @latourbot tweet that has “and” or “,” in it, and push it to an array. Then I say there’s a 50% chance it will be latour-then-swag, and 50% that it will be swag-then-latour. If Latour comes first, I take a random Latour tweet from the array and take all the text up to the “and” or the “,”. Then I take a random swag tweet and take the text after the “and” in it. Then I do latour + ” and ” + swag. There you go.

It’s slightly more complicated than that, but mostly it’s just a few tweaks I did to make sure I had enough Latour quotes to pick from. The results are actually pretty good sometimes!

I learned later that Mille Plateaux (A Thousand Plateaus) was the name of a book and a cheerleader! #swag

— Latour Swag (@LatourSwag) January 12, 2013

Orly was the prototype with laboratory methods; the CET is still the prototype and badass she is!! #SWAG!

— Latour Swag (@LatourSwag) January 12, 2013

In the other area (“the secretariat”) there are typewriters and dancing #drunk #vodka #vegas #swag #dope #drinks #bff

— Latour Swag (@LatourSwag) January 12, 2013

The technician who sacrificed the guinea pig is held responsible and shyt mua fuckas aint no shit to me #blazeit #swag #yolo

— Latour Swag (@LatourSwag) January 12, 2013