Twitter Hoax Reveals What We Desire Most From Machines - 2 views
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Bonnie Boaz on 23 Jun 14This week, Twitterers around the world received some devastating news: The Twitter account @ Horse_ebooks, a cult favorite, was human after all. For years, @Horse_ebook's over 200,000 avid followers had been convinced its sometimes poetic, often nonsensical, frequently hilarious tweets had been the musings of a spambot created to elude Twitter's spam detectors and peddle books about horses.