It's Steve (now in blog form) » Cryptonomicon http://itssteve.com Science shanigans, Internet tomfoolery, and general rigmarole Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:27:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Twitter oddness http://itssteve.com/2009/02/16/twitter-oddness/ http://itssteve.com/2009/02/16/twitter-oddness/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:21:12 +0000 Steve http://itssteve.com/?p=275 Here’s a weird one.  I recently finished the Cryptonomicon (the first 800 or so pages were great.  The last 20 were just terrible).  Anyway, Douglas Shaftoe is one of the main characters in the book.  The weird part is that a couple days after finishing the read, I’m now being followed on Twitter by this fictional character who only tweets segments of the book.  Very strange.  Check him out.

The bit I’m trying to sort out is what mechanism triggered the follow.  I’m using Living Social these days to catalog my reading activities, but I’m not sure how the leap was made from there to my twitter account.  Going to have to do some digging.

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