A few years ago now I started work on an automated haiku finder. The script would scan through Twitter’s public feed and identify randomly occurring haiku. I got the script basically working, but could never figure out the last step… what to do with the results.
Today I had a brainwave, and realized that the haiku robot could actually just feed the results straight to a blog, and then complete the circle by using Twitter’s API to feed information back onto Twitter itself.
In a very, very alpha form, the Twitter robot is now live at the following locations
HaikuRobot.blogspot.com
twitter.com/HaikuRobot
He’s still pretty buggy so I’m not going to leave him on 24 hours a day, but he is already turning up some absolutely great haikus:
Santa overdosed??
Merry Christmas Everyone
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE
Best Christmas ever
Everyone seems to agrees
FART ROBOT APPROVES
How gutted am I
Free time family card games
So pretty and COLD
Still a lot of work to do, he’s not yet notifying people that their tweets formed part of a haiku, and the blog is a mess.
