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I enjoyed it but was probably most upset with the suggestion that Pres. Obama would be running for a third term? Broke my brief encapsulation with the story.
Interesting read. Obviously not real, its not like hes the only one using the API. And the fact it involves time travel.
I don't use Twitter, but I'm a reluctant Facebooker (because everyone in my family and a few good friends use it), and it actually suffers from a more realistic version of this problem. I frequently see posts that are like 3 weeks old popping up at the top of my feed, posts that it also showed me 3 weeks ago.
I enjoyed it but was probably most upset with the suggestion that Pres. Obama would be running for a third term? Broke my brief encapsulation with the story.
Maybe all the people I follow on Twitter but don't know in real life aren't real, but merely a series of pre-generated messages, served up by a scheduler.
Replies are done with fancy natural language processing and monitoring of what's popular on the web. Retweets and follows are triggered by your social graph and cookie history.
I love these hidden stories. Reminds me of the comp.basilisk faq at http://ansible.co.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html
along with other related stories listed here: http://ansible.co.uk/books/dkod.html
I enjoyed it but was probably most upset with the suggestion that Pres. Obama would be running for a third term? Broke my brief encapsulation with the story.
I read that part of the story to mean that people were tweeting nonsense about who won the next election, not that Obama was actually running.