Horse_ebooks is a widely followed spam Twitter account and Internet phenomenon. The account is intended to promote low-quality e-books, but is known for its amusing non sequiturs, an apparent effort to evade spam detection Horse ebooks tweets fragments of modified text copied from other sources, mixed with occasional promotional links to websites selling e-books associated with the affiliate marketing company ClickBank.[2]
Its output has been described as "strangely poetic"[3] and as "cryptic missives that read like Zen koans which have been dropped on a computer keyboard from a great height."[4] Examples include "I will make certain you never buy knives again" and "dear tomato".[1]
Unlike other Twitter spam accounts, Horse ebooks does not employ strategies of mass-following and unsolicited replies to Twitter users. Because it does not use typical spammer techniques, the account has not been closed, as Twitter spam accounts frequently are.[2] As of August 2012, it has more than 100,000 followersHorse Ebook.
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