“Forget Ouija boards. If you want to communicate with the dead these days, all you need is Twitter,” Will Coldwell reports for The Guardian. “Much like last week’s episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, in which a grieving woman uses a digital service to communicate with her deceased boyfriend, social media is already bridging the gap between the living and the dead.”
“Launching in March is a new Twitter app called LivesOn,” Coldwell reports. “The service uses Twitter bots powered by algorithms that analyse your online behaviour and learn how you speak, so it can keep on scouring the internet, favouriting tweets and posting the sort of links you like, creating a personal digital afterlife. As its tagline explains: ‘When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting.'”
Coldwell reports, “Another service, DeadSocial, puts the power in the deceased’s hands. It is a ‘digital legacy tool’ that lets you set up a series of messages to be sent out posthumously, via Facebook and Twitter.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Tweet ’til your fingers fall off – and beyond!
… I thought it was an article about aapl financial analysts.
those folks are just brain dead!
Well why not….they still vote!
Zombie nation domination,
in life an abomination.
In death a cremation,
so send out a declaration.
I refuse to assignation,
my credit to your crepitation.
As a castration,
to your idea to end it in a conflagration.
of the dead, tweet nothing but good.
de mortuis nihil nisi bonum tweetum.
🎼 “Swing Low, Tweet Chariot”
Yet another instantiation of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice. What a Mickey Mouse operation.
And in other news, the AMC cable channel has announced plans for their latest apocalyptic drama, tentatively titled “The Tweeting Dead” ….
Easily one of the most creepy and hair-brained ideas I have ever heard. 😀
Actually, shouldn’t that be “harebrained”?
I wonder who is liable if your bot slanders someone?
Speaking of dead… what happened to BLN?
Is it April 1st already?
Or did the govt. declare ‘Undead Day’?
I’m sure people are already setting up “bots” (surrogates) to tweet for them automatically… no death required.
Shades of the Twilight Zone episode, “Night Call.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Call
Get ready for “Night Tweet.”
Uh oh. That would be Porn for most guys right? lol
I n@ver l0+k at p#rn
it m@kes yuo b/ind
No need to wait till you’re dead, just start using the app now and save yourself the effort of tweeting all that nonsense.
OK, worms are coming out…..
1: Please don’t tell the Mrs – wouldn’t want her being able to nag me AFTER she was dead!
2: Microsoft will likely seize on this idea to get dead people to do something they wouldn’t dream of in real life (whisper) -promote Windows 8. Could well be the only way they can generate some positive feedback.
3: Apple could counteract Microsoft by getting Steve Jobs to start blasting back out of the ether should Nº 2 gain traction
4: Just as you contemplate some peace and quiet after burying your spouse under the patio she tweets the police from the other side – “If you get to read this I am dead and that bas**rd husband of mine has stuck me under the paving”.
5 Microsoft will be able to claim that all the crap Steve Ballmer has tweeted actually came from a malicious dead poster.
6 Twitter may have to use an indicator of some kind to differentiate between live and dead tweeters to prevent fraud. What indicator to use for Steve Ballmer? A monkey? A Clown? Baby with dummy? Endless possibilities.
Just a few rambling thoughts.
Only $9.99 a tweet!
This explains all those tweets from RIM.
Nice to see the living world is catching up with me. I’ve been dead all year for tax reasons and it hasn’t stopped me posting here.
great…now if we could just make it work in reverse
#ElvisPresley says: “My feet are killing me! Damn you, blue suede shoes!”