https://github.com/arnaucube/flock-botnet

Twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with text generated based on probabilities in Markov chains
https://github.com/arnaucube/flock-botnet

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Twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with text generated based on probabilities in Markov chains

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arnaucube/flock-botnet
• Owner: arnaucube
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-04-21T22:54:00.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-10-07T14:47:07.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-20T09:31:54.248Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Go
• Homepage: http://arnaucube.com/flock-botnet/
• Size: 4.39 MB
• Stars: 58
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 15
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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A twitter botnet with autonomous bots replying tweets with text generated based on probabilities in Markov chains

### generating text with Markov chains

Markov chain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain

The algorithm calculates the probabilities of Markov chains, analyzing a considerable amount of text, for the examples, I've done it with the book "The Critique of Pure Reason", by Immanuel Kant (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4280/pg4280.txt).

### Replying tweets with Markov chains

When the botnet is up working, the bots start streaming all the twitter new tweets containing the configured keywords. Each bot takes a tweet, analyzes the containing words, and generates a reply using the Markov chains previously calculated, and posts the tweet as reply.

In the following examples, the bots ("andreimarkov", "dodecahedron", "projectNSA") are replying some people.

![flock-botnet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucode/flock-botnet/master/screenshots/01.png "01")

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![flock-botnet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucode/flock-botnet/master/screenshots/02.jpeg "02")

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![flock-botnet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucode/flock-botnet/master/screenshots/03.jpeg "03")

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![flock-botnet](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arnaucode/flock-botnet/master/screenshots/04.jpeg "04")

configuration file example (flockConfig.json):

```

[{

        "title": "account1",

        "consumer_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "consumer_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "access_token_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "access_token_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

    },

    {

        "title": "account2",

        "consumer_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "consumer_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "access_token_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "access_token_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

    },

    {

        "title": "account3",

        "consumer_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "consumer_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "access_token_key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx",

        "access_token_secret": "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

    }

]

```