Programmer Jonathan Puckey has created a computer-generated postmodern novel using a Twitter bot. Puckey and his team at Moniker, a Dutch design studio, filtered through tweets using the bot to compose a sort of rambling diary.
The result, called All the Minutes, documents one tweet per minute through a 24 hour period by choosing from over 6000 tweets per second and stringing them together each minute, producing an end result of around 20,000 words.
Here's a sample:
The innovative project indulges a stream-of-consciousness style that could give the likes of Finnegans Wake a run for its money.
[via Fast Company]