In the spirit of horse_ebooks, based on the code by Buster Benson, but with some minor tweaks.

Using a cache of your tweets and a Markov chain library written in Ruby, ebooks.rb generates a funny thing.

You can then curate a list of funny things, add them to a new-line delimited file, then setup a job to automatically run tweet_cache.rb.

Create a new twitter account, e.g. USERNAME_ebooks. Clone this repo, export your Twitter archive, save the tweets.csv into the cloned folder. Install the dependencies via bundle install, then run bundle exec ruby ebooks.rb. Giggle at the output, and tweet at your leisure.

• Export your Twitter archive

• git clone https://github.com/glasnt/ebooks

• Install Ruby
• gem install bundle
• bundle install

• Take the tweets.csv from the downloaded Twitter archive and save it into the cloned code folder

• bundle exec ruby ebooks.rb

Create a new Twitter account. I strongly suggest following these recommendations, for reasons below:

• Naming recommendations:
  • append _ebooks to your normal screen name
  • the twitter username limit is 15 characters, and since _ebooks is 7, you only get 8 characters to play with
• Set a display name screenname ebooks
• Set the avatar to your normal avatar, but upsite down

Using these settings means your account is easily identifable as a robot account, and can be inferred to belong to you.

Warning: I highly recommend not piping output of this application directly to Twitter. You have no idea what's going to come out of this robot's mouth. Think a foul-mouthed R2D2, without the bleeping (or maybe that's just me...)

• Obtain your API secrets and keys from Twitter. You'll need a CONSUMER_KEY/SECRET pair and a ACCESS_TOKEN/SECRET pair.
• run bundle exec ruby ebooks.rb NUM where NUM is the amount of results you want at once
• Choose some nicer output, cleaning it up as much as you like, and add to a new-line delimited file.
• run tweet_cache.rb cache.txt to tweet the first line of the cache, and removing that line from the file.
• run this as a scheduled task via crontab using 0 */4 * * * /home/glasnt/ebooks/tweet_cache.rb cache.txt to tweet a result every 4 hours, for example.

Recommendation: Try not to tweet more regularly than once an hour. There are Twitter API limitations that mean that you can't just spam things willy-nilly, plus, you really don't want to annoy people with your new robot. If your regular account retweets all your robots noise, you might not be very popular.

See LICENSE