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Here's How to Turn Old Tweets into Computer-Generated Poetry

Poetweet is like the muse your Twitter handle never knew it needed.
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If you’ve ever felt that the poetic potential of your Twitter account has been egregiously undervalued, Poetweet (available in English and Portuguese) is the browser-based muse for you. The latest creation from b_arco, a contemporary art center in São Paulo, Poetweet searches through your original tweets and transforms them into computer-generated poetry.

All you have to do is enter your Twitter handle, choose between a sonnet, rondel, or the more esoteric indriso (two three-line stanzas, followed by two one-line stanzas), and wait for your poem to materialize. Raise a glass to the Dadaists too; the notion of the cut-up technique that undergirds Poetweet and Google Poetics began with them.

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Perhaps the most addictive feature of Poetweet is that the user can generate poems from any public twitter handle. I tried out David Lynch’s—this is some refridgerator-worthy stuff, people.

Get your own tweet poem here.

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