Isn't she pretty? That ship called Dignity

[venta]

Twitter is a strange beast.

I noticed earlier that a user I'd never heard of had re-tweeted a throwaway remark I made (in the guise of Pintwatch) to leathellin. Who is this aboutdignity, I wondered.

It turns out that it's an account which appears to re-tweet any remark anyone makes which contains the word "dignity". Even more strangely, it has 1500 followers.

Is this an isolated oddity, or are these aggregating accounts common things ? Would following it tell me something deep and meaningful about life, dignity, and the human condition ? It seems rather unlikely, to me, since pattern-matching on text has rarely produced much that's hugely insightful. Except by accident.

Do people follow in the hopes of serendipitous wisdom from the masses ?

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Your favourite search engine will find many, many more if you look for "retweet bots". No, I don't know either.

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Every so often I worry that one day I will run out of strange and peculiar things to be astounded by, then oh look! The Internet!

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Apropos of nothing much, will I be unexectedly bumping into you on Monday evening ?

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It's a definite possibility! We shall look out for you.