Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required

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Hey, how’s Newt Gingrich doing on Twitter? You could try answering this question yourself by combing through Twitter and looking at what Newt says there, and what people are saying about Newt there. But that would take time and effort. Much easier to have a computer track this down for you — and then ask the computer to write up a story about it, too. That’s what Narrative Science, the start-up that specializes in robot-written stories, did earlier this week. The result isn’t elegant, but it gets the job done, in a brute force sort of way.


Twitter + Robots = Instant Stories, No Humans Required