Hello

This is a presentation of creative textual work generated by computer programs and published on Twitter within the last 24 hours. Currently featuring over 124 tweets published by 30 "poets".

Use W, S, A, and D keys to navigate on an XY plane. Use Q to return to this slide, C to start the next row, and E to return to the previous row. Or use the space bar to move to the next slide.

About

This webpage is generated automatically from a list of favorited tweets. It uses the Twitter API to access and format this data, Perl for arranging that data into some HTML templates, and jQuery and CSS for the interface. This hasn't been tested extensively for browser compatibility, but it seems to work fine for current versions of the big 3 on Ubuntu or Windows. Swipe functionality on mobile devices kind of works but is sluggish.

@zachwhalen made this. If you discover any problems with the layout or if you have suggestions for improving it, you can @ me or send me email at zach.whalen @ gmail.com .

Numbers

There are about 550 million Twitter accounts.

Numbers

In the last 24 hours, about 100 million of these users sent about 500 million tweets.

Bots

About 20 million Twitter accounts are fake.

Bots

There are more Bots on Twitter than there are humans living in the state of Florida.

Some of them are poets...

Is it art?

Is it art? Is it?

Is it art?
@IsItArtBot
  • 611 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 120 Followers
  • 120 listed


Pelafina Lièvre

Uses the letters of Pelafina Lièvre, a character in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, to generate Markov-chains.

Pelafina Lièvre
@pelafina_lievre
  • 3366 Tweets
  • 1 Following
  • 17 Followers
  • 17 listed


Vladimir Nabotov

Generates text with Markov chains from the works of Vladimir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabotov
@VVNabokov
  • 647 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 4 Followers
  • 4 listed


BillBlakeBot

Generates text with Markov chains from the works of William Blake.

BillBlakeBot
@autoblake
  • 954 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 46 Followers
  • 46 listed


Babel verses

Subjects randomly selected Bible verses to repeated auto-translation.

Babel verses
@BabelVerses
  • 12292 Tweets
  • 7 Following
  • 25 Followers
  • 25 listed


BUBBLE BOBBLE EBOOKS

Random collisions of ASCII text scraped from the source code of the arcade game, Bubble Bobble (Taito, 1982).

BUBBLE BOBBLE EBOOKS
@bublbobl_ebooks
  • 1396 Tweets
  • 1 Following
  • 86 Followers
  • 86 listed


My Favorite Things

A randomized version of Oscar Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.

My Favorite Things
@FavThingsBot
  • 501 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 47 Followers
  • 47 listed


So Much Depends Upon

Based on William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow."

So Much Depends Upon
@DependsUponBot
  • 672 Tweets
  • 65 Following
  • 73 Followers
  • 73 listed


Ezra Pound Sign

Based on Ezra Pound's "In A Station of the Metro"

Ezra Pound Sign
@BlackBoughBot
  • 653 Tweets
  • 25 Following
  • 48 Followers
  • 48 listed


This Is Just to Say

Based William Carlos Williams' poem, "This is Just to Say."

This Is Just to Say
@JustToSayBot
  • 691 Tweets
  • 190 Following
  • 432 Followers
  • 432 listed


MoPoBo

Based on various works of modern poetry.

MoPoBo
@MoPoBot
  • 938 Tweets
  • 8 Following
  • 13 Followers
  • 13 listed


Metaphor-a-Minute!

A new metaphor every two minutes.

Metaphor-a-Minute!
@metaphorminute
  • 358293 Tweets
  • 1 Following
  • 397 Followers
  • 397 listed


Ways of Looking

A controlled-vocabulary substition bot based on Wallace Stevens' "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".

Ways of Looking
@at_a_Blackbird
  • 131 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 20 Followers
  • 20 listed


Six Word Sale

Variations on a six-word novel famously but unreliably attributed to Ernest Hemingway.

Six Word Sale
@SixWordSale
  • 1629 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 22 Followers
  • 22 listed


Literally Joyce

Blends public tweets that include the word, "literally," with text extracted from the works of James Joyce.

Literally Joyce
@LiterallyJoyce
  • 80 Tweets
  • 14 Following
  • 25 Followers
  • 25 listed


Walt FML Whitman

Blends tweets tagged "#fml" with Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Walt FML Whitman
@WhitmanFML
  • 4141 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 216 Followers
  • 216 listed


Two Headlines

Blends together two headlines.

Two Headlines
@TwoHeadlines
  • 1109 Tweets
  • 1 Following
  • 404 Followers
  • 404 listed


Camptown Races

Finds public tweets that match the rhythm of "Camptown Ladies".

Camptown Races
@ct_races
  • 20325 Tweets
  • 14 Following
  • 13 Followers
  • 13 listed


Cl▒▒▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓

ClearCongress retweets the latest status by a random member of Congress, but blanks out all but the percentage of letters equal to Congress's current job approval polling.

Cl▒▒▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
@ClearCongress
  • 117 Tweets
  • 93 Following
  • 10 Followers
  • 10 listed


Unicode Ebooks

A scream of unicode static created in response to @horse_ebooks.

Unicode Ebooks
@Unicode_ebooks
  • 5595 Tweets
  • 0 Following
  • 19 Followers
  • 19 listed


Megacorp Killcodes

More unicode static, but more tightly controlled.

Megacorp Killcodes
@killcodes
  • 91 Tweets
  • 33 Following
  • 32 Followers
  • 32 listed


exq=.s.te =n.c&de/s

Participatory TwitterArt: jimpunk.com/crashtxt/.

exq=.s.te =n.c&de/s
@crashtxt
  • 8273 Tweets
  • 437 Following
  • 5595 Followers
  • 5595 listed


Google Poetics

Making poetry of Google Search autocompletions.

Google Poetics
@GooglePoetics
  • 1368 Tweets
  • 8 Following
  • 57400 Followers
  • 57400 listed


HaikuD2

Unintentional Haiku.

HaikuD2
@HaikuD2
  • 2505 Tweets
  • 7 Following
  • 158 Followers
  • 158 listed