Hack & Tell: Twitterick

How to write shitty poems using crowdsourcing.

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1. ⾠WARNING The following presentation contains a very loose definition of "poetry". If you find yourself easily dismayed by bad poetry, please leave the room.
2. Limerick /ˈlimərik/ n. a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming AABBA. credit: Google
3. Twitter /ˈtwitər/ n. a series of short, high-pitched calls or sounds. credit: Google
4. Twitterick /ˈtwitərik/ n. a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short high-pitched calls or sounds. Rhyming is preferable. credit: me
5. Dan F-M /dän əˈfem/ n. an astrophysicist/hacker with a love of mashups and too much free time.
6. Dan F-M /dän əˈfem/ n. definitely not a poet.
7. POETRY Crowdsourced
8.  thousands of tweets every second. sometimes we might get lucky.
9. there are no new ideas.
10. there are no new ideas.
11. but remixing is cool
17. Close enough. if you don't like it, it's an open source project —  dfm/twitterick
18. yeah my rhythm sucks!
19. yeah my rhyming sucks!
20. you mean just matching the last two phonemes doesn't work? distracted? complicated?
21. I ain't smart enough for this shit
22. an unlimited number of twittericks. sometimes we might get lucky. ick
23. You've managed to take two things that I don't give a shit about–poetry and Twitter–and create something that I can't stop using. – a friend ‟
24. How does it work?
25.  stream tweets. NL TK get pronunciation. save for later.
26. Want a new poem? 1 Get a random tweet with 9 < syllables < 15. 2 Get two random long tweets that "rhyme". 3 Do the same thing to get two short rhymes.
27. Want a new poem? 1 Get a random tweet with 9 < syllables < 15. 2 Get two random long tweets that "rhyme". 3 Do the same thing to get two short rhymes.
30. EPHEMERAL tweets are FOREVER twittericks are
31.    dan.iel.fm dfm @exoplaneteer Dan Foreman-Mackey twitterick   twitterick.com dfm/twitterick