About
What Would I Say? is a web application that can generate uniquely personalized sentences based on each user’s personal records of status updates on Facebook.
History
The application “What Would I Say?” was developed by Princeton graduates Pawel Przytycki, Ugne Klibaite, Vicky Yao, Daniel Jiang, Edward Young, Harvey Cheng and Alex Furger over the course of 72 hours during the annual HackPrinceton[4] Hackathon in early November 2013. The app, which can generate personalized sentences by running each user’s history of Facebook status updates through a series of Markov algorithms[3], was subsequently released via Google’s App Spot.[1]
Online Presence
On November 12th, the application moved to the domain What-Would-I-Say.com.[2] The same day, several news sites published articles about the web app, including Gawker,[7] Slate,[8] Business Insider,[9] One the Media,[10] The Huffington Post,[11] BuzzFeed,[12] International Business Times[13] and The New Yorker.[5] Also on November 12th, Redditor bigbluegrass submitted a link to the site to the /r/InternetIsBeautiful[6] subreddit, where others submitted examples of generated status updates in the comment section. On the following day, the keyphrase “what would I say” was listed as the most searched query of the day on Google Trends “Hot Search” index (shown below) and the site was shared over 1.2 million times according to the Facebook Graph API.[14]
Search Interest
External References
[1]App Spot – What Would I Say
[2]What Would I Say – What Would I Say?
[3]Wikipedia – Markov Chain
[4]HackPrinceton – HackPruinceton
[5]The New Yorker – The Story Behind What Would I Say
[6]Reddit – What would I say generates a Facebook status for you
[7]Gawker – What Would I Say
[8]Slate – What Would You Say on Facebook
[9]Business Insider – Stop What Youre Doing and Try This Site
[10]On the Media – Replace Your Online Self With a Bot
[11]The Huffington Post – Your Facebook Statuses Are Gibberish
[12], BuzzFeed – Theres a Website That Can Guess
[13]International Business Times – What Would I Say
[14]Facebook – what would i say