Project Stage Two: A Twitter Bot
1. Create a Twitter account. If you already have Twitter accounts connected to all your current email accounts, you may need to create a new burner email on a site such as mail.com. Choose a name that fits your intended bot's theme.
2. Authorize the "Cheap Bots Done Quick" app to connect to this new Twitter account by logging into your account, then following the directions on the website. You will need to have confirmed your account through the email validation before the app will authorize.
3. You will now see a live Tracery editor of the type we've worked with before. Start by replacing the origin with a basic statement:
{
"origin":"Here is a bot."
}
Scroll down to see the live preview of the bot's output -- don't set it to tweet yet, as this is static!
4. Since we've already covered the text section of Tracery grammar, open your from stage one and copy it into the Tracery editor. Make sure you have retained an "origin", as this is what contains the sentence patterns that will be tweeted. Check the preview to see samples of what your bot will generate.
5. Now you're ready to complete the assignment: at this stage, you should have a clear idea of the theorist or theories influencing your bot's design, and some ideas of sentence structures you'd like to use. For ideas as you work: