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# Mitt Romney's Tweets, Transformed
- URL: https://ivn.us/mitt-romneys-tweets-transformed/
- Published: 2012-08-11T21:30:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:29:39.000Z
- Author: Jane Susskind
- Tags: News

A professor at the University of Calgary has created a Twitter account that, with the help of a computer program, generates parodies of Mitt Romney's tweets. Rightly called [@TransforMitt](https://twitter.com/TransforMitt?ref=ivn.us), the program was reportedly a Facebook experiment gone awry. Either way, these [tweets](https://twitter.com/TransforMitt?ref=ivn.us) are pure comedy.

How it works: "Aycock’s computer-generated tweets replace a few words from Romney’s tweets with a few of its own. Aycock then proofs them, to make sure nothing inappropriate or offensive gets through." - [CBN](http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2012/08/10/calgary-twitter-parody-computer-science.html?ref=ivn.us). Similar to the computer-generated tweets found on [@horse\_ebooks](https://twitter.com/Horse%5Febooks?ref=ivn.us), but way more coherent and in full sentences. Also, I'd argue, much more relevant in today's political climate (nothing against low quality e-books about horses).

So why does a Canadian care about poking fun at U.S. politicians? He explains on his [website](http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/transformitt.html?ref=ivn.us), "Timing. No major elections in Canada right now."

Let's compare some of Romney's most recent tweets, to those generated by [@TransforMitt](https://twitter.com/TransforMitt?ref=ivn.us):

**Mitt Romney**

https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/230648101663281152

**Not Mitt Romney**

https://twitter.com/TransforMitt/status/231412867994353664

**Mitt Romney**

https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/232837259915825154

**Not Mitt Romney**

https://twitter.com/TransforMitt/status/233199421716828160

**Mitt Romney**

https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/233181214469652480

**Not Mitt Romney**

https://twitter.com/TransforMitt/status/233571950776160257