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+'''
+Local Settings for a heroku_ebooks account. #fill in the name of the account you're tweeting from here.
+'''
+
+#configuration
+MY_CONSUMER_KEY = 'Your Twitter API Consumer Key'
+MY_CONSUMER_SECRET = 'Your Consumer Secret Key'
+MY_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = 'Your Twitter API Access Token Key'
+MY_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'Your Access Token Secret'
+
+SOURCE_ACCOUNTS = [""] #A list of comma-separated, quote-enclosed Twitter handles of account that you'll generate tweets based on. It should look like ["account1", "account2"]. If you want just one account, no comma needed.
+ODDS = 8 #How often do you want this to run? 1/8 times?
+ORDER = 2 #how closely do you want this to hew to sensical? 1 is low and 3 is high.
+DEBUG = True #Set this to False to start Tweeting live
+STATIC_TEST = False #Set this to True if you want to test Markov generation from a static file instead of the API.
+TEST_SOURCE = ".txt" #The name of a text file of a string-ified list for testing. To avoid unnecessarily hitting Twitter API.
+TWEET_ACCOUNT = "" #The name of the account you're tweeting to.