Twitter Magnets: Create Poetry and Share it on Twitter!
I’ve seen quite a few Twitter apps and tools out there but never quite anything like Twitter Magnets, a website that allows you to create poetry using cutups of words that you can click and drag into a writing pad. Much like magnetic poetry tiles, the ones you can use to leave cryptic messages on your fridge.
You can shuffle through words by clicking a button and a useful character count in the bottom right corner of the screen makes sure you don’t go over Twitter’s 140 character word limit.
After finishing your poem, you have the choice of submitting it anonymously to their Twitter profile, which has a live feed of other poems… or you can enter your username and password to post it on your own profile as well.
There’s no real utility to it but this is a fun application to play with.
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This type of poetry is called Dada. It used to be made by chopping up newspapers or magazine bits, putting them in a bag, and taking pot luck.
This magnetised version used to exist on poetry.com before the site was taken over by lulu.