Twagnetic Poetry
(July 2009)
Take the text of your Twitter posts and scramble it into "magnetic" poetry, which you can shuffle and rearrange as if your browser were a refrigerator door. Take your everyday tweets and turn them into something more exciting, or take your friends’ tweets way out of context and use their words against them.
![[Screenshot of twagnetic poetry.]](http://sediment.semifat.net/img/twagneticpoetry_screenshot_450.jpg "A twagnetic poem.")
Play with Twagnetic Poetry.
Most social games play with a person's network of friends in one way or another, using them as opponents, data, or targets for viral propogation. Twagnetic Poetry takes a different approach, using a person's own words to construct the play space.
Assembling the words for a magnetic poetry set from words that the user has already written has multiple advantages: it increases the number of useful and desirable words in the set (after all, the user picked the words out themselves!); and poetry posted to the user's Twitter stream reads to followers as "real" content, rather than just generic notifications.
Implemented in HTML and Javascript, using the JQuery toolkit.