Why the Awful Twitter Spambot @Horse_ebooks Is the Future of Hilarity
From robots to disembodied personal assistants to personalized advertising bots, autonomous machines promise to make our future lives simpler and...

From robots to disembodied personal assistants to personalized advertising bots, autonomous machines promise to make our future lives simpler and more comfy. And potentially a lot more hilarious. Though machines are not designed to be funny, sometimes they just are, in an unintentional and ridiculous and almost adorable way. Consider, for example, @Horse_ebooks.
It’s a spam account on Twitter that is beloved by thousands, a weird collision of crappy advertising and postmodern humor.

Future Humor
Sometimes the nonsense is so real it catches you off guard. It’s like a modern form of found poetry. Or maybe it’s like laughing at a foreigner’s uncertain pronunciation of “cheeseburger,” but more politically correct. “The awful presentation, the bumbling bot-speak, the unbuyable books” lend a certain charm, writes John Herrman over at Splitsider. As our daily world becomes more and more populated by autonomous machines, we can look forward to a wealth of this sort of byproduct hilarity.
For a glimpse of the machine-driven, accidentally fantastic future of humor — head over to Splitsider, where Herrman breaks down the reality and surreality of @horse_ebooks.