Tweeting from the afterlife
Saturday, January 9, 2016 by Dave Winer

Stephen King tweets a question: "What if dead people started tweeting."

That's actually a topic of one segment of the latest This American Life. 

A troll decided to impersonate an author's dead father on Twitter. 

He knew a lot about her because the info was available in scattered places on the net. She interviewed the guy to find out why he did it. 

Not saying it wouldn't make a good Stephen King story. 

  • Actually, for some time now, I've had a cronjob set to tweet for me after I die. Sadly, yes, there have been false positives when I'd been offline for too long, but I'm alive to work on that.

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