The New Yorker: "There Are Lots of Offbeat Accounts on Twitter"
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Four months ago, New Yorker writer Susan Orlean revealed that a Buzzfeed creative strategist named Jacob Bakkila was behind the popular "spam" Twitter account @Horse_ebooks. Today, her article has been published (subscription-only); this is Orlean on "Weird Twitter":
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The article is, generally, much less embarrassing than it could have been.