Who the Fsck is SLJ?

SLJ-Who is a silly command line tool to guess who is more likely to be the author of your favorite parody twitter account.

In Jan 2014, I said this:

Then @endtwist in Jan 2015 actually did the work:

And @techcrunch later here:

But I wanted to tweak it...

I applied a similiar approach using TF*IDF and also cleaned the data a bit before classification. Changes results a bit.

Installation

You'll need twitter api credentials.

Go to https://apps.twitter.com/app/new Create an application.

Under "Keys and Access Tokens", grab your Consumer Secret & Consumer Key.

Install the Code

gem install bundler
git clone https://github.com/aaronbatalion/slj-who
cd slj-who && bundle install

# setup with your twitter key/secret
/slj-who.rb config --key=THIS-IS-YOUR-KEY --secret=THIS-IS-YOUR-SECRET

Examples

# dont forget to set your key/secret
./slj-who.rb run --authors=dcurtis,abatalion,levie --parody=startupljackson

Produces output like:

Who is startupljackson? Comparing 3 accounts
================================================================================
[dcurtis] fetching 1000 tweets: .............
[dcurtis] creating term frequency doc
[abatalion] fetching 1000 tweets: .................
[abatalion] creating term frequency doc
[levie] fetching 1000 tweets: ......
[levie] creating term frequency doc
[startupljackson] fetching 1000 tweets: ..................
[startupljackson] creating term frequency doc
building a similarity matrix from term-freq docs
 [48.60%] levie
 [47.04%] abatalion
 [45.65%] dcurtis

TODO

lots... feel free to fork.