Pat Thornton tweet generator.
Most people in the online news game probably know Pat Thornton. I’ve noticed a pattern in his thought process and twittering lately, and took it upon myself to write a generator for his tweets, for those who just can’t wait to see the next thing he has to say.
I’m releasing it under the GPL, so as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation might say, “share and enjoy!”
Feel free to add or suggest words and phrases. Code is in Python.
import random
def thornton_tweet():
old_tech = ['voicemail', 'newspapers', 'paper', 'the Associated Press', 'old journalists', 'the front page', 'inches', 'pens', 'pencils', ]
new_tech = ['the Internet', 'social media', 'blogs', 'twitter', 'gigabytes', 'video', 'Steve Jobs', 'Apple', 'RSS', 'TechCrunch', 'Web 2.Oh', ]
random.seed()
random.shuffle(old_tech)
random.shuffle(new_tech)
print "Did " + new_tech[0] + ” kill ” + old_tech[0] + “?”
Some sample output:
Did TechCrunch kill the front page?
Did Web 2.Oh kill voicemail?
Did Steve Jobs kill pencils?
Did gigabytes kill inches?
Did Steve Jobs kill newspapers?
Did the Internet kill the Associated Press?
Did video kill pens?
Did TechCrunch kill paper?
The next revision will include support for tweets such as: “old_tech is dead.”
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