Longest Poem in the World

You all know how I feel about Twitter - mostly I love it (despite being inundated by the masses now).

Someone has done something really cool, and started a poem based on Twitter posts that rhyme.  The coolest part is that these tweets are gathered from the Twitter stream, so the rhymes are completely unrelated - but somehow they work.  Each line of the poem provides a link back to the original tweet.

It looks like it's done automatically, because some of the rhymes include emoticons (as in the word "Wheee!" rhyming with :P.  But no matter, this is still some of the coolest stuff I've seen.

Remarkably, it's done in real time, so the poem grows by roughly 4000 verses a day, according to the web site.  What's more interesting, to me, is that the rhymes are in real time - which means for many tweets, there's one that rhymes within seconds.  Statistically this may not be a big deal, but it's pretty amazing when you think about it.  Upon doing a little research, it seems that both lines of the rhyme are not in real time - but at least one is.  Ah well, it's still amazing.

From the About page:

"The Longest Poem in the World" is composed by aggregating real-time
public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme. It is constantly growing at ~4000 verses / day.  You can see more verses by clicking the three dots at the bottom (• • •)

Made by Andrei Gheorghe

So, without further adieu, I give you the Longest Poem in the World.  It is listed by most recent first.  To read older posts, click the ellipsis (...) at the bottom of the page.

Hat tip: Programmable Web