Twitter gets all poetic

JA September 01

Another little foray into poetry this week. This time it’s a veritable vortex of free verse from Twitter (it seems you can do just about anything with the site these days). The Longest Poem in the World, designed by Andrei Gheorghe, is a feed that aggregates real-time twitter updates and then compiles them together based on rhyme. For example:

gonna a see a movie and drink beer
Two more paragraphs and I'm done with King Lear!
monitor came and it’s sick :P
Changed my user name and pic.
Fuck wearing all black and walking around downtown. I need some shade!
Two bands that are blowing me away tonight... Mineral and Grade
its raining and I want to stand under it.
Being sick and without a car is shit.

It’s growing by about 4000 verses a day, which I suppose is a testament to the ever-growing space that is social networking. Perhaps not the stuff of greatness, but good for a laugh.

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