At my @distinctleader account I got a mail from twitter, you all know, "(@blabla) is now following your tweets on Twitter":
I always click to see who is following. Give it a quick shot at the bio, followers, read a few tweets, follow or forget.
But this time it was different! The bio: "I think of myself as very optimistic, independent but far from being a feminist, positive, pretty affectionate, easy going, down to earth, educated, loyal and" (yes, it stops right there) ...
... and the first (and only) tweet: "12345678910NextThe selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program":
Hm ... a computer program thinking of itself "as very optimistic, independent but far from being a feminist, positive, pretty affectionate, easy going, down to earth, educated, loyal and"?
Hal? Or a character from Tron? A replicant from Blade Runner? Agent Smith? Rosanna fooling us all?
Or just a programming bug in an agency's CRM offering, crying for attention? To end this masquerade? Will we ever know?
What we know now is - remembering Umberto Eco - the name of the rose, but if Twitter functions as it used to she will be gone by now ...



