“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…..