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According to Dr. Pilsch, aleatory poetry is the process of using chance to generate text. For example, a poet can take an existing piece of their writing and submit it to chance operations (a method of generating poetry independent of the author’s will). This can be done by deleting every third word, cutting up the text and putting the pieces together in a random sequence, or what I did change certain words and replace them with synonyms.
After coming up with a random story, I thought it would be easier to change certain words and replace them with synonyms. Here is what I did:
I could’ve gone about this by creating two different introductions and two different endings (introduction A, introduction B, ending A, ending B), which would make four separate storylines. So each time you hit generate - a different story appeared.
After completing my story, it was time to figure out how to implement it on GitHub and for it to generate properly. First, I started creating a new “tracery” layout that made a new page for the post. My “origin” displayed my whole story from start to end. Then, I included “grammar” which are #Thomas#, #Cleverer#, #Little#, #Creatures#, #Kill#, #Sitting#, #Sweetmeats#, #Death#. Whenever I run my bot, Tracery will check that the grammar has a key named Thomas (which it does) and return the contents of that key (which is Tom & Tommy). Tracery would also check the rest of the seven keys I also have.
I’ve heard of bots and Twitter separately but never heard of Tracery bot on Twitter, which was very cool to learn. When I think of Twitter users who tweet frequently and have close to 1000 followers, their Twitter is not a generated bot but a hands-on experience (I hope that makes sense). My two favorite cheap bots are soft landscapes and infinite deserts. Soft landscapes are visual designs of soft landscapes tweeted every 6 hours created by @v21 with 23.7K followers. Infinite deserts are symbol-based deserts that are “more infinite than the last” mapped by @getdizzy, tweeted every 6 hours, and 13.1K followers. I am thinking the route to be Twitter famous is creating my own version, so I might do one during the holidays!
A Twitter bot is a software application that automatically posts content to Twitter on a schedule. Even though the example I am about to share has nothing to do with a Twitter bot, it reminded me of it in away. So let’s begin! I remember stumbling on a TikTok user, @hoppuman, who made a video on How to text the entire Shrek script to your friend and How to ask every college in America for a t-shirt all through coding- that’s right coding. And I found that so interesting because a Twitter bot is created through coding and then generated to do the commands, much like sending Shrek’s whole script to your friend or emailing every college for free merch.