Very, in Twitterbot terms. As noted above, the account is racing towards , followers with a current tally of over , The thing is, none of these is anywhere near as amusing. The tweets are less off-beat and random, they seem somehow dreary and perfunctory by comparison.
One of the more tantalising is the figure of Dalton who appears to have become embroiled in an international criminal conspiracy. One tweet suggested that he faced justice at the hands of the Costa Rican government while others simply present curious vignettes of this shady fraudster:.
Some intersections don't make much sense. We'll start with Weird Twitter. At least, for a time, it was its poster child. Weird Twitter, as a community, has common threads and, coincidentally, was covered quite well in this Buzzfeed piece.
It often targets, and parodies, ads and brands through absurdist, nonsensical sentences and surrealist imagery. They are funny. Someone, somewhere, is writing about Weird Twitter and irony right now. It isn't that simple. Weird Twitter is just weird. In a larger sense, Weird Twitter pushes against notions of standard and acceptable behavior crucially in a non -inflammatory way—these are not your Reddit trolls, your Holocaust memes and humorously engages with the medium.
I'd rather have Weird Twitter than nihilistic Free Speech advocate-trolls hanging nooses across comment threads. Twitter cannot simply stand in for the Internet—it's much too diverse and hyperactive and segmented—so we have to think about it only in terms of Twitter.
It can be situated within the larger geography of the Internet, for sure, but not at the expense of the nuances of Twitter itself. As it approaches its IPO and sponsored tweets pop up more and more and corporations find new ways to market, we'll probably see more of Weird Twitter. And then there were bots. We perform and engage with automation hundreds of times a day.
The Internet is already some kind of nightmarish, circular Turing Test where we are either always proving our humanity to buy concert tickets or not noticing the actual bots we regularly interact with, interact with us, and interact on our behalf. Engaging with non-human Twitter entities can be fun—their presence confronts you with the automated side of the web we don't or perhaps choose not to see all the time.
Generally, they conflict with the idea that the Internet is Humankind's Fantastic Playground, mainly because they aren't human. It was an accident that continued for about a year until someone got control of it and saw an opportunity. Photo with 1 note. This cheek art face painting ebook guide will teach you fun cheek art designs for girls and boys that are a hit at birthday.
Post reblogged from Denim chicken? Link with 4 notes. Photo reblogged from blah with 25, notes. Photo reblogged from with notes.
0コメント