Title: Generate Tweets Using Markov Chains
Slug: generate_tweets_using_markov_chain
Summary: Generate Tweets Using Markov Chains Date: 2016-11-01 12:00
Category: Python
Tags: Other
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



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import markovify

Load Corpus

The corpus I am using is just one I found online. The corpus you choose is central to generating realistic text.



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# Get raw text as string
with open("brown.txt") as f:
    text = f.read()

Build Markov Chain



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# Build the model.
text_model = markovify.Text(text)

Generate One Tweet



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# Print three randomly-generated sentences of no more than 140 characters
for i in range(3):
    print(text_model.make_short_sentence(140))









    



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