Are you following @horse_ebooks? John Herrman explains why you must: "It isn’t a parody account and it doesn’t tell jokes. It’s a spam bot that sells shitty ebooks about horses, and it might be the best Twitter account that has ever existed." [Splitsider]

  • http://twitter.com/endico Dawn Endico

    You re About To Launch A Resell Rights Attack So Deadly That Your Visitors Will Instantly Throw Up

  • scatterfingers

    It’s so accidentally whimsical, in exactly the same sort of way email spam is whimsical and magical.

  • http://www.aldenbates.com/ Alden

    “One of humanity s greatest unspoken fears is”
    …

    Great, now I’ll never know.

    • LinkMan

      At least you know it is, and isn’t not.

  • dculberson

    Well, that was far more fun than I expected.  12-16 baby corn.

  • clastowka

    Definitely could be the #2 account on Twitter, but in my opinion nobody can top @DadBoner: 
    http://conorlastowka.com/2011/12/man-of-the-year-karl-welzein/

    • noah django

      great.  now I’m down the rabbit hole with Karl.  so much for getting anything done on my day off, you guys.

  • http://mordicai.livejournal.com Mordicai

    I get enough of it in retweets, but it IS bloody genius.  We’ve found our infinite monkeys I guess.

  • BDiamond

    Why are articles about spammy/lulzy Twitter accounts so bloody l-o-n-g? They’re like the anti-Twitter. (ADHD, what’s that?)

    • http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby

      Tell me about it, I’m actually a little annoyed at Rob for stealing my lunch break.

  • https://twitter.com/Thejackthompson Jack Thompson

    One of my happiest twitter moments (which isn’t saying much really; still) was when horse_ebooks followed me. Made my weekend.

  • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

    So, basically, this spambot is a neighsayer?

  • Guest

    “Are you sick of seeing magazine pregnancy models perform outdated lateral raises”

    YES!

  • Mookerchief

    Reminds me of the Hybrid in Battlestar Gallactica. Maybe she was just spouting spam all along… 

  • mercedes42

    So, stupid question: are all spambot tweets written by software programs? Or is an actual person writing these?

  • mercedes42

    Ok, stupid question: are all spambot tweets written by software programs? It seems incredible that random sentences could be so serendipitously awesome.

  • Ben Lawrence

    Numbers station.

  • C W

    “It isn’t a parody account and it doesn’t tell jokes”I disagree. There might have been a spambot at some point in the past, but these updates are far too… curated to not be intentionally selected.