@Horse_ebooks
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 1:37 am
you have probably come across retweets of this strange twitter feed at some time.
lets talk.
It's an automated spam bot. Amongst the links it's advertising, it quotes text randomly (TRULY randomly, lol) from the ebooks it is selling. Ebooks about horses apparently.
People love it though, as a form of found poetry, and it can tend to sometimes generate things which are rather hilarious.
But at the end of the day, it's just a spam bot, doing it's thing.
I suppose the following it's generated is in the style of spamusement.com
When i first came across it a while back i thought maybe it was someone pretending to be a horse who was selling ebooks about horses, and we couldn't understand it's alien horse intellect. I thought it was a goof, a humourous parody or online art, i didn't even realise it was a legit spam bot trying to appear to be a normal person.
https://twitter.com/horse_ebooks
http://favstar.fm/users/Horse_ebooks/most_retweeted
http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-balla ... se_ebooks/ some analysis which inspired me to make this thread.
anywaY
lets talk.
It's an automated spam bot. Amongst the links it's advertising, it quotes text randomly (TRULY randomly, lol) from the ebooks it is selling. Ebooks about horses apparently.
People love it though, as a form of found poetry, and it can tend to sometimes generate things which are rather hilarious.
But at the end of the day, it's just a spam bot, doing it's thing.
I suppose the following it's generated is in the style of spamusement.com
When i first came across it a while back i thought maybe it was someone pretending to be a horse who was selling ebooks about horses, and we couldn't understand it's alien horse intellect. I thought it was a goof, a humourous parody or online art, i didn't even realise it was a legit spam bot trying to appear to be a normal person.
https://twitter.com/horse_ebooks
http://favstar.fm/users/Horse_ebooks/most_retweeted
http://splitsider.com/2012/01/the-balla ... se_ebooks/ some analysis which inspired me to make this thread.
anywaY