twoet

A tweet-fed poem generator. Live demo here, at Twoemme. Demo site not available at the moment.

About this project

twoet was born as an experiment on détournement, based on the ideas presented by Kenneth Goldsmith on his book, "Uncreative writing". The program works by pulling a considerable sample of random tweets using Twitter's Stream API statuses/sample method from a Node client called twit, and then matching tweets in pairs with an ABAB rhyming scheme through rimador.

Read more about this experiment here.

How to install

$ git clone https://github.com/joelalejandro/twoet
$ cd twoet
$ npm install

Using twoet

Although the software should be able te fetch live tweets, it works better by pooling tweets and storing them off-line in a JSON file.

In order to set-up the environment, you must:

• Run npm run build:language to install rhyming plugins (further versions will support other languages rather than Spanish)
• Run npm run build:detournement to get a sample of tweets.
• Run npm run test to see how poems are generated through the compose() method.

### A sample Twoem

Twoem: a Tweet-derived poem.

{ title: 'Twoem 5681 0869 7920 4896',
  authors: 
   [ /* ... */ ],
  verses: 
   [ 'Mi vieja dijo "doy gracias a dios que ninguno de mis hijos fuma marihuana".',
     'y ninguno conmigo pedazo de gato',
     'Sonríe Hoy, Por que Quizás no Haya Un Mañana.',
     'Alguien que me desaburra un rato?' ] }

Sample output from Twoem server

http://imgur.com/b8P94di

License

MIT © 2016 Joel A. Villarreal Bertoldi

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