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@BadHistoryBot - Update 1

I was proud of my basic Bot, but there was no way I'd just leave it at that as it was just tweeting the same formula every hour, which is hardly noteworthy. It was with this in mind that I prepared my first update. My goals were; -More variety in tweet structure! -More lists -Using more historical entities than just 'dynasties' and 'empires'. It was with these in mind that I made Lists for; - Historical Periods, - Political Ideologies, - Technologies, - Incorporated a list of Kingdoms into my list of Dynasties and Empires, - Religions.  -Historical Periods was easy. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_by_period -Political Ideologies took ages, as the list is pretty extensive. A problem came up as well, and that was how "neutral" some of these ideologies are. Nationalism, Fascism, and Communism are all seen by some to be ones that have no place in a fun bot. I decided to keep them in however, but committed myself to linking folks to a
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@BadHistoryBot ‏- Prototype

I figured a basic generator would be more easy for me to do, so my next attempt at Bot making was with one I decided would generate bad opinions about history. I called it @BadHistoryBot . I used a bunch of sources for this, but by far the most useful were; - Cheap Bots Done Quick - which does all the real work. I especially like the Tracery Visual Editor linked there. - This tutorial for making a Basic Tracery Bot. - Nora Reed's site , where they talk about their bots in detail. Several posts there were astronomically useful. In short, it compared one random historical empire or dynasty to another using a random Comparative Adjective. It was pretty basic, but I'm stupidly proud of it. I proved I had it in me to make a Twitter Bot. Here's what I recorded about it; This bot was made on the 2/3rd of June 2017, by Andrew Davis (@ThrownIntoSol) using http://cheapbotsdonequick.com/. Word lists 1- Empires and Dynasties - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empir
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@RoboAndrewDavis

Evryon loves ebook accounts on Twitter, and my first attempt at botmaking was trying to make one for myself. However, even the online tutorials ostensibly for complete novices were beyond my skill, so this was abandoned until I could understand the tutorials..
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Introduction and FAQ

 Intro Hello, I'm Andrew Davis (@ThrownIntoSol on Twitter) - and this is blog was made to be a place online for me to put all the info regarding the bots I've made on Twitter. Right now, this blog is extremely bare, but this might change in the future. I'm not a coder, programmer, or anything beyond a person who plays games on the computer a lot. I'm pretty active on Twitter, and follow a bunch of bots - many of which I highly enjoy. I though that I'd try to make one myself. FAQ - I save all the data I use to make the bots on a folder that I occasionally back up. - Info about the sources for the word lists, as well as the word lists themselves are also saved. -Turning a source's info into data consists of me copy-pasting said info into Microsoft Word, and then editing it into a Notepad file. This editing takes a huge amount of time due the weird formatting that sources such as Wikipedia use, and the stuff required to use the lists in a bot.
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