Not every Twitterbot — that is, Twitter accounts animated by code rather than by human interaction — has to be as ridiculous as what I made in the course of my adventure as a wannabe bot-creator. The full measure of the apparent affection for Twitterbots was revealed last year, when the cult-popular account @Horse_ebooks, believed to be a really strange bot, turned out to be (apparently) tweeting human-crafted posts. It’s perfectly understandable why any given Twitter user might follow a useful bot — but can we really follow a bot out of sheer pleasure? Just recently, after all, my colleague Alyssa Bereznak listed a number of enjoyable Twitter novelty accounts, bots included.
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