Writing an Markov-Chain IRC Bot with Twisted and Python Nov 17, 2008 Twisted is one of Python's great secret weapons. It is an absolute workhorse, allowing for insanely fast network applications to be written with very little effort. So let's do what everyone does when they want to learn more about Twisted: let's write an IRC bot! This bot is going to use Markov Chains to simulate human speech. Fo