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12 Minutes on Twitter

Don't you just love it?  You're minding your own business, then you get an Gmail notification that someone added you on Twitter!  YAY!  Who is it?

Oh.  -.-

It's someone named "Ironweee" and I have no f*cking idea who it is.  Well, I have a clue.  I mean what is the DEAL with people who do this?  For shits and grins I followed "Jenny Phillips" for 12 minutes on Twitter.  No, not really "followed" per se.  I stalked, because I immediately "blocked" her, and hells yes, I'm cool with that!

Here is the Gmail invite.  0 followers, 0 updates, following 114 people:

Within TWELVE MINUTES she was following 950 people, and she changed her name from Jenny Phillips to:

Francis King,
Stephanie Rodriguez,
Stephanie Clark, AK,
Lucy Ray, NY,
Marge Mitchell, DE
Sharon Campbell, Earth
Angela Hughes, AZ
Virginia Sanchez, Nowhere
Caroline Russell, Paradise
Kathleen Campbell, Smallville
Shirley Hall, FL
Marge Gibson, DE
Madeline Perry, MA
Sarah Hegarty, Happy Land
Cynthia Edwards, SC

Will someone please explain this to me?  It's mind boggling.

Comments (3)

May 21, 2009
sucka99 said...
it's a bot
May 21, 2009
grant65 said...
The "what," as sucka99 says, is an automated process to create accounts and follow people.

The "why" is anyone's guess.

May 22, 2009
Suz E. said...
It's Sybil?

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