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This bot can turn your tweets into rad 8-bit graphics

BBC Microbot transforms your Twitter posts into something that might actually be worth beaming into your eyeballs.

Tweets: we've all got 'em — or most of us do anyway. Some tweets are helpful, others are fun, most are frivolous. A select few, however, are art.

A Twitter bot (of all things) is helping in the latter department. With some coding skills, BBC Microbot can turn your tweets into 8-bit masterpieces like this...

art by @P_Malin on Twitter