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Bots defined like this can be spawned by executing `run.rb` in the same directory, and will operate together in a single eventmachine loop. The easiest way to run bots in a semi-permanent fashion is with [Heroku](https://www.heroku.com); just make an app, push the bot repository to it, enable a worker process in the web interface and it ought to chug along merrily forever.
The underlying [tweetstream](https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream) and [twitter gem](https://github.com/sferik/twitter) client objects can be accessed at `bot.stream` and `bot.twitter` respectively.
## Archiving accounts
twitter\_ebooks comes with a syncing tool to download and then incrementally update a local json archive of a user's tweets.
``` zsh
➜ ebooks-ebooks git:(master) ebooks archive 0xabad1dea corpus/0xabad1dea.json
➜ ebooks archive 0xabad1dea corpus/0xabad1dea.json
Currently 20209 tweets for 0xabad1dea
Received 67 new tweets
```
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In order to use the included text modeling, you'll first need to preprocess your archive into a more efficient form:
``` zsh
➜ ebooks-ebooks git:(master) ebooks consume corpus/0xabad1dea.json
➜ ebooks consume corpus/0xabad1dea.json
Reading json corpus from corpus/0xabad1dea.json
Removing commented lines and sorting mentions
Segmenting text into sentences