![]() ![]() This bot, by Quartz’s own David Yanofsky, takes a few real headlines to form a new one that often makes just as much sense as the originals. Some see poetry in odd places, like the often inscrutable headlines that come out of Bloomberg News. Or you can invent language altogether, like this bot by thricedotted that mashes together real English words to create new ones. If your idea of poetry is more like The Sound of Music, then you might prefer this bot riffing off the musical’s most famous song. The bot riffs nonsensically but sometimes beautifully off the famous poem by William Carlos Williams. More poetry: This one is more constructed than found art. (If you like that, you might also enjoy the Tumblr, by Jacob Harris, that finds haikus buried in the New York Times.) This Is Just to Say In a similar fashion, this bot by Cameron Spencer looks for tweets unwittingly composed in the structure of a haiku. On the accompanying website, they become unintentional sonnets. Ranjit Bhatnagar’s Pentametron retweets tweets that are written in perfect iambic pentameter. Pentametronīot art needn’t be visual, and one of the classics of the form looks for poetry in everyday musings. TWEETBOT VS TWITTER 2020 FREEIt features random images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s free online archive. The art tweeted by this bot, also by Kazemi, was made by humans not algorithms. TWEETBOT VS TWITTER 2020 SOFTWAREReverse OCRĪnother algo art bot, and one of a few accounts on this list by Darius Kazemi, Reverse OCR draws random lines until optical character recognition software thinks it looks like a certain word. If Twitter were just these two bots tweeting at each other, I wouldn’t complain. Then there was the time Pixel Sorter started flirting with Bob Poekert’s Quilt Bot, which applies a quilt fabric pattern to any image. The results, like other forms of algorithmic art, are often beautiful. This arty bot by Way Spurr-Chen takes any image you tweet at it and resorts the rows of pixels according to one of a few predetermined rules. Dear AssistantĪnother handy bot, created by Amit Agarwal, this one has answers to a wide range of questions-with the help of Wolfram Alpha, the intelligent search engine. The best bot is a useful bot, and this one proves its worth with a steady stream of videos that are newly available to stream on Netflix in the United States. ![]() (Oh, and never forget the time Olivia was chatting with another bot and Bank of America’s customer service account chimed in.) Netflix Bot Olivia will also reply to people who follow her, often with tweets more profound than any human could muster. ![]() Olivia isn’t real, but in many ways, she’s more real than many of the teenage girls whom the account emulates. Rob Dubbin accidentally created the bot while experimenting with language manipulation of real-life teenage Twitter accounts. Where it was possible to determine the bot’s creator, we noted it here, but who’s to say those people aren’t actually bots themselves? Olivia Taters To determine eligibility, we didn’t perform a Turing test but did require that the account be automated ( sorry, and still actively tweeting. ![]()
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