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Phantoms and Zombies and Spambots, Oh My!

Oct 11, 2012
by Caroline Miller
Erica Ho, James Wolcott, Newt Gingrich, Time's Techland
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Rupert Murdoch and I have something in common. I don’t really “get” Twitter. I have 33 followers on a good day, but they aren’t really following. They’re using my site as wallpaper to advertise their sites. We have no more to say to each other than if we were nomads stumbling through a sand storm with our eyes shut. When I think of Twitter, I think of sound and fury signifying nothing or what essayist, James Wolcott calls the place for “extroverted jabber.” (“All that Twitters,” by James Wolcott, Vanity Fair, 10/12, pg. 151- 55.)

Worse, and to my horror, Wolcott swears that many of these jabberers aren’t real. The most blatant example comes from political campaigns. He cites Erica Ho of Time’s Techland as a source for one example. According to her, “92 percent of Newt Gingrich’s Twitter followers may have be zombies — phantoms, spambots and paid-for names.” (Ibid)

Information like Wolcott’s makes me want to shout, “Leaping Lizards, Batman, is anything real in web land?”

Halloween will soon be upon us, with its ghosts and goblins; but it all looks tame compared to Twitter’s phantoms and zombies and spambots. Oh my!

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(Zombie computer courtesy of flipside.theiet.org)

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published five novels

  • Getting Lost To Find Home
  • Ballet Noir
  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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