I think it's pretty clever that our machines are talking to us through human surrogates using machine intermediaries, like the ones running Twitter. Consider Twitter_Status and Ma.gnolia on Twitter. It's like our services have become sentient and know how they're feeling and want to talk to us like we do with each other. Or is it just cats in the shell?

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Twitter and the future of transmogrification at FactoryCity · 2007-01-23 18:27:22

[...] up on the trend towards Twitterification — and I find it very interesting, especially as the differentiation between bot, aggregate and human is essentially nonexistent. Was it a service, a friend or one of many friends pinging you just then? One never [...]