Twitter Use 4

Twitter can be used for poetry.  Artists often create artificial limits for themselves, in part as a way of focusing their creativity.  Haiku can serve this purpose.  Its short length translates well to Tweets.

At least one hash tag has been created for micro poetry.  #micropoetry seems active.

A technological approach can be taken, like this web site, which seems to use a computer program to determine which tweets rhyme, then matches them at random.  The Tweets become a raw material for other art.

Also posted outside of Twitter, Madeline40 used 140 character poems for a serious reason: To honor her late son.  Maybe she chose this form because she has been a technical writer?

In the loosest definition of poetry, anything anyone writes on Twitter is a poem, whether the author thinks of it that way or not.  Of course, under the loosest definition of poetry, pretty much anything written by anyone is a poem.

Of course there are people offering advice on how to write Tweets.

If you read this far, you deserve a laugh.