https://twitter.com/theheadlinebot
Developed by Robert Calvert (@robxcalvert)
A twitter bot designed to create incoherent but potentially funny headlines based on current events. Using a crude implementation of the Markov chain, it gathers every word of various news sources' last 500 tweets, as well as the word after it. It then uses these words to generate headlines by following each word with a word which followed it in a real tweet. This way the headlines may make some sense, but will still be random.
I have attempted to use both left-wing, center and right-wing Twitters to get a nice sample of headlines.
I also add various non-news (or fake news) sources to diversify the word selection.
Developed using the Twitter4J API.