Thursday, January 01, 2009
"i know, LOL" - Jake Elliott + Nicholas O'Brien (2008)
yesterdaze Jake Elliott + Nicholas O'Brien created a short-lived Twitter Art project/account which has now "been suspended due to strange activity". i immediately Tweeted about it calling it Twitter Art, LOL.ART or webArt but Twitter calls it "spammy behavior."
Following the now suspended accout takes you to a standard explaination of why the account may be suspended. The reasons incl "If you are sending large numbers of @reply messages that are not genuine replies, you may be considered spam."
Their project, called "i know, LOL" was an account by the same name which was based on the Twitter API + listened for ppl saying "LOL" + then automatically replied to those Twitter users, saying "i know, LOL!"
what interests me here is that these (automated) replies were "not genuine" from the perspective of Twitter + that this form of Twitter Art, LOL.ART, webArt, New Media Art, etc... can so easily be understood/interpreted as "spammy behavior."
yesterdaze Jake Elliott + Nicholas O'Brien created a short-lived Twitter Art project/account which has now "been suspended due to strange activity". i immediately Tweeted about it calling it Twitter Art, LOL.ART or webArt but Twitter calls it "spammy behavior."Following the now suspended accout takes you to a standard explaination of why the account may be suspended. The reasons incl "If you are sending large numbers of @reply messages that are not genuine replies, you may be considered spam."
Their project, called "i know, LOL" was an account by the same name which was based on the Twitter API + listened for ppl saying "LOL" + then automatically replied to those Twitter users, saying "i know, LOL!"
what interests me here is that these (automated) replies were "not genuine" from the perspective of Twitter + that this form of Twitter Art, LOL.ART, webArt, New Media Art, etc... can so easily be understood/interpreted as "spammy behavior."
Labels: 2008, art, Jake Elliott, LOL, LOL.ART, new media art, Nicholas O'Brien, spam, Twitter, Twitter Art, webArt
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'what interests me here is that these (automated) replies were "not genuine" from the perspective of Twitter + that this form of Twitter Art, LOL.ART, webArt, New Media Art, etc... can so easily be understood/interpreted as "spammy behavior."'
I know, LOL!
I know, LOL!
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Indeed, it's sad that online services are taking the "Hammer instead of scalpel" approach of, for instance, the TSA. Twitter has banned fun art accounts that genuinely made people's day many times. [example: Wheee! Pony!, formerly @Wheeepony, discussed here (not by me): http://blog.davemadethat.com/2008/11/13/theres-a-strange-pony-following-me/ ]
pareidoliac has written about "i know, LOL!" here:
http://pareidoliac.blogspot.com/2009/01/twitter-art-projects.html
comparing "i know, LOL!" to other works of Twitter Art such as the Jenny Holzer tweets of her truisms on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer
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http://pareidoliac.blogspot.com/2009/01/twitter-art-projects.html
comparing "i know, LOL!" to other works of Twitter Art such as the Jenny Holzer tweets of her truisms on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer
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