@horse_ebooks
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A pseudo-paper has been released about @horse_ebooks, lol |
@horse_ebooks is a Twitter spambot created by what looks like a Russian Mark Zuckerberg called Alexei Kouznetsov and operated by Buzzfeed. Hipsters and Something Awful goons worshiped it due to it posting lolrandom shit. The account was registered on August 5, 2010 and the earliest known tweet made by the bot was on February 6, 2011. It was revealed to be a sham piece of modern art September 24, 2013.
September 14th, 2011
On September 14th 2011, 
horse_ebooks started posting from web rather than the custom "horse_ebooks" client it was posting from before. This was immediately proceeded by a slew of insane posts. This was considered odd by the nerds who followed it, who noted that before this date the crazy shit that horse_ebooks posted use to come less frequently. As is the behavior of all hipsters, horse_ebooks fans started complaining that the account was now funnier than before, claiming that the account was "hacked".
This was, of course, complete bullshit. The best explanation at the time was that the Russian spammer behind the account probably switched spambot software, or maybe even noticed the fact that his spam account had 40 thousand followers and tweaked it's algorithm to give people more of what they wanted, LOLRANDUM nonsense and truncated posts scraped from random places on the Internet.
Moar Liek Scambot
What really happened was a shady criminal organization known as Buzzfeed acquired @horse_ebooks through unknown means to further their own nefarious goals. Ever since 2011, each and every one of the thousands of seemingly nonsense tweets from @horse_ebooks was actually composed by either Jacob Bakkila or Thomas Bender, both of whom work or worked at Buzzfeed. They called the account "conceptual-art", a phrase whose closest English cognate is "Irredeemable shit", best demonstrated by Spaghettios.
This revelation was a piss-take on all of the @horse_ebooks fanbois, who had followed on twitter, wrote fanfic, and even bought IRL posters featuring the not-so-spambot's garbage output. Mild mannered internet reporter Adrian Chen was vindicated by the revelation, as his “outing” of the account operator was only outdated by half a fucking year. This was the most up to date story he had written over his entire career, putting him right up there with the shadier Stephanie Meyer blogs in terms of journalistic ability.
The end
On September 24, 2013 the @horse_ebooks Twitter achieved sentience and realized that it was responsible for this faggotry; it gasped its last confusing breath. Hipsters everywhere were in tears over this tragic loss of their daily dose of bullshit.
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In addition to the dozens of tweets spammed that day, the following video was tweeted, implying that following the bot had become "cool", and signaling the upcoming seppuku of @Horse_ebooks: HAHAHA TURNS OUT THE CHANNEL AND TWITTER WAS JUST A BACKGROUND FOR SOME SHITTY COMMIE ARG CALLED BEARN STERNS BRAVO AND IT FAILED MISERABLY!!!
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Archive of 3200 Tweets by Horse_ebooks ranging from 07/31/11-03/30/12. Due to restrictions by twitter, tweets before that point are unavailable.- Adrien Chen, professional hack lulzkiller in
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