kladky / scopes

Scopes

The basic idea:

1. Humans look for patterns and meaning in everything. When they don't find these things, they make them up.
2. Humans like to share trite, generic advice online.
3. Probably selected tweets collaged together could sometimes be as meaningful as a "real" horoscopes?

This site generates a horoscope based on tweets

Live tweets

The live tweet view shows a selection of tweets pulled from a live twitter search and lightly filtered. The search is made using two random horoscope keywords to turn up tweets that have a horoscope sound. Then, each tweet is filtered to screen for forbidden words, remove noise like links and @s, and generally clean things up.

My original idea was to search for these tweets on the fly and then compose them into longer horoscope texts, but I found two problems with this approach:

1. Obvi there are a lot of different kinds of conversations on twitter, and I found that even with my horoscope keywords, a lot of tweets I found contained content that didn't match aesthetically with my idea.
2. The time it took to find and filter tweets, and then load them into a Markov chain, and then generate a horoscope text was non-trivial.

Markov chain

In the expanded view, you can see longer horoscope texts. These are based on tweets I found through the method above, as well as real horoscope texts. The output is composed using a markov chain.

Check it out: https://twitterscopes.herokuapp.com

scopes's Issues

update twitter route to include more robust search

• search by random string in array of keywords (maybe + a guideword?)
• filter out tweets that end in ...?
• filter tweets containing not useful topics:
  • sports
  • politics
  • brands?
  • register

Expand markov chains w more tweets and emojis

build out seperate love/career routes (+ whatever)

Set up basic page structure + styles

Connect to twitter API

will need to:

• set up secrets
• establish connection

Add share buttons

Clean up codebase to remove startpoint mess

Add RiTa

Randomize tweet display in front end

we get a bunch of tweets rn - pick random instead of first

Add ability to refresh tweets

Build out markov chain front end

show selected sign at start of tweet text

Update styles based on selected sign

Get basic start point working

Finish backend route for markov chains

if emojis don't show up automagically, make sure they do

Add ability to select and unselect a sign

Add error handling/messaging for no tweets

Display three tweets as horoscopes