The premise is simple: enter your Twitter handle into website Poetweet, and a lyrical masterpiece made from your past posts is born.
Users can choose to have their tweets translated into a sonnet (a poem of 14 lines originating from Sicily); a rondel (a poem of two stanzas of four and five verses) or an indriso (a poem of eight verses derived from the sonnet following a free theory).
The website is the brainchild of b_arco, the Brazilian Contemporary Art Center, and seeks to bring highbrow literary form to the masses - albeit with sometimes dubious success as the tool splices and dices past tweets to hilarious effect.
We tested out the website with HeraldScotland writers before turning the tweets of prominent Scottish figures' from various genres into something a little more literary. Click on the links below to read them.
Use the tool to create your own poem by clicking here.
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by Julie McDowall @ariel_mcdowall
Next week's Wolf Hall is glorious!
Music and the occasional otter.
Though Boden are always fabulous.
9, and I'll be reviewing it later.
Was a clue: The Illuminations.
They're so neat!
Looks like a map. Here be dragons!
And that smoking's really great
Own Boy | Herald Scotland
Quits as kids only get one minute
And Vacuum Cleaners 1, 2 and 3
That would be more a tribute.
Killed me. Have you read Stasiland?
Were ignored
by Iain Macwhirter @iainmacwhirter
Of equal and autonomous nations."
His account of what happened next.
To scam money with fraud petitions
Has problems with predictive text.
Welfare, NHS... Hardly extremists.
Oh come on. Don't tease...
The barometer an weep unionists!
By FOS under OBA they'd have case.
Do with socialism so why reference?
Hagues EVEL changes to WM voting.
Not a shred of evidence.
Its an thing.
Trying to attract to independence.
The football
by Graham Spiers @grahamspiers
Going Gaz, this is hilarious...
- and glad I did. Important figure.
My position re RFC is tremendous!
Ollie. Good luck next adventure.
I forgot, delicious lunches...;)
Together by an unbiblical cord...'
My humble apologies to John Hughes.
Today…remembering Arthur Montford.
My position on this is laughable.
Out of the minds of these fans?
Good as in. The SFA will crumble.
Way back to Jack and Russians...;)
The pitch with Ham A is unarguable.
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