Generative text for Twitter and other platforms using Tracery.

1. Twitter bots
for fun and... poetry?

2. generative text

3. ELIZA

12. tracery
www.tracery.io

13. JSON grammar
{
"origin": "You are standing in a dark forest"
}
⇒ You are standing in a dark forest

14. Replacements
{
"place": ["forest", "cave", "IT department"],
"adjective": ["dark", "haunted", "stinky"],
"origin": "You are standing in a #adjective# #place#"
}
⇒ You are standing in a haunted forest
⇒ You are standing in a stinky cave
⇒ You are standing in a dark IT department

15. Nesting
{
"place": ["forest", "cave", "#adjective# IT department"],
"adjective": ["dark", "haunted", "stinky"],
"origin": "You are standing in a #adjective# #place#"
}
⇒ You are standing in a haunted forest
⇒ You are standing in a stinky cave
⇒ You are standing in a dark stinky IT department

16. Modifiers
{
"place": ["forest", "cave", "IT department"],
"origin": "You are standing in #place.a#"
}
⇒ You are standing in a forest
⇒ You are standing in a cave
⇒ You are standing in an IT department

17. Saving
{
"animal": ["dog", "cat", "unicorn"],
"food": ["apple", "toffee", "bean"],
"story": "My #pet# likes #treat.s#. When you feed my
#pet# #treat.a# it says THANKS!",
"origin": "#[pet:#animal#][treat:#food#]story#"
}
⇒ My dog likes beans. When you feed my dog a bean it says THANKS!
⇒ My unicorn likes apples. When you feed my unicorn an apple it says
THANKS!

18. making bots

21. @deitygalaxy

24. Other Platforms
● Slack/IRC
● Facebook Messenger
● Fediverse (Mastodon, etc)
● Amazon Alexa/Google Home etc.
● Anywhere with an API…
● ...or your own software projects

25. text that isn’t text

36. Resources
https://botwiki.org/
http://tracery.io/
https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/
https://botmakers.slack.com/
https://github.com/dansumption/deitygalaxybot/
Tracery zine

37. Thank you
@dansumption
@deitygalaxy