Archive for March, 2012
How many tweets will it take to complete The Works of Shakespeare?
by JP on Mar.12, 2012, under Development
This weekend, the VoucherCodes.co.uk Dev Team put their heads together for a 2-day hackathon and we decided upon a project involving Twitter, and a certain well respected English poet and playwrite, Mr William Shakespeare.
After many discussions, designs, beers, pizza, and of course, code, we launched:
At it’s core, it’s about the Complete Works being reproduced by Twitter users posting their thoughts / rants / comments / etc. on the topics of the day, and those combined tweets recreate William’s words. Sort of like Inifinite Monkey Theorem, (not that I’m not calling Twitter users Monkeys).
I have to say I’m extremely proud of the team and what we’ve produced in such a short space of time. Looking at it in operation, it’s a fascinating reading though Macbeth and seeing a phrase recreated by a tweet on the subject of #ThingsNotToDoAfterABreakup or #ghettotranslations.
Take a look, and see what you think…
