t w e e t n i k s
Accessing twitter via the Tweetniks interface, you get the option to build up a model of any topics (or users) you're interested in. Tweets that are more news-worthy (i.e., less predicted by the model) are then given darker red backgrounds. This provides a visual alert for those easy-to-miss items. The system also lets you have multiple timelines open in the same window.
Tweetniks can be run as a web page , or as a standalone application that can save and load. In the main window, click the background and select Help for further information. Start model-learning on a timeline by clicking `Start learning' in its title bar. Tweet any feedback to @replexer.

Take the Turing-twitter Test

In the original Turing Test, a human talks to another user via a chat system. If the other user turns out to be a chatbot, and the human fails to detect this, the program generating the chatbot's responses is said to pass the `Turing Test' for genuine intelligence. As of 2009, no program has come close.

The Turing-twitter test is a more realistic but still challenging task, in which you train a chatbot to generate your tweets for you, and then let it go live on twitter. If your followers fail to detect any difference, the chatbot passes the `Turing-twitter test', with the score being the number of replies obtained before anyone notices the switch.

You can use Tweetniks to produce an entry for this by getting the system to learn a model of your own tweeting style. Select "Show Turing-twitter Challenge" in the main menu for further information.