Social media mashup

By mixing and combining stanzas from different tweets in your timeline, Haikr not only creates haiku for you, but mashups. Distinct voices, events, and perspectives are remixed and re-cast in the space of your haiku generator. Part of the fun in creating a pleasing haiku with Haikr is seeing how the tweets of people you follow end up folding together into new statements.

Make yourself a haiku

So what exactly is a 'haiku'? Haiku is a type of poem with very tightly-constrained rules. Each haiku is three stanzas, or lines, of exactly five/seven/five syllables. This very specific format can require creativity, careful planning, and concise use of language to achieve a desirable effect — kind of like Twitter! The boiled-down, streamlined language of tweets is a fertile field from which to pull haiku stanzas.

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