input: from typing import List, Tuple
  
  def get_recent_tweets(username: str) -> List[Tuple[str, str]]:
      """ Fetch the most recent tweets from a specified Twitter user and return them as a list of tuples 
      containing the tweet text and the date of the tweet.
      >>> get_recent_tweets("elonmusk")
      [('Tweet text 1', '2023-01-01 12:00:00'), ('Tweet text 2', '2023-01-02 12:00:00')]
      """
output:     tweets = [
          ('Tweet text 1', '2023-01-01 12:00:00'),
          ('Tweet text 2', '2023-01-02 12:00:00')
      ]
      return tweets