Twitter and the WooBots (A Twitter experiment)

[eponymousarchon]

That's truly remarkable!

After being followed twice on twitter by scary new-age users (See posts here and here) promoting their dubious wares, I decided to run a small experiment today. At least one of the followings seemed to be triggered by references to fairly obscure new-age pseudoscience in my twitter, which lead me to suspect that such terms

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[bluedevi]

Twitter reminds me of the movie Candyman, where if you say the baddie's name five times he appears. Except it's five times as sensitive. :)

[philipstorry]

35 minutes ago, I tweeted: "Minutes into my exercise, and there's the sweat as forecasted. A colder evening would be nice right now."

20 minutes ago, I got an email: "Yoga Bear is now following you on Twitter!"

Hmmm.

[thecesspit]

I posted about "Leeds United" the song, and had a Leeds United FC twitterer following me in a few minutes...

[ukcougar]

I'm loving "WooBots", kudos.