In a recent email to Jenna, I realized I didn't have much in the way of updates because everything pertinent in my life has already been published on my Facebook status and/or on Twitter. Such Big Brother transparency the internet provides these days, I mused.
But it's a little more obvious on Twitter. I don't use it a whole lot, and only follow 2 people and a couple of websites, but it's kinda fun nonetheless. Here's where it got a bit spooky:
Before Christmas, as I was doing online shopping and using kaboodle.com to keep track of my shopping lists, I put up a status about how much I loved Kaboodle. That same day, kaboodledotcom started following my feed. A few weeks later I put up a comment about the joys of shopping from the comfort of your living room. That's when shopping_chic started following me. How bizarre, I thought.
Then there's today. And my current status proclaiming how much I enjoy receiving Borders coupons in my email. Within hours, I had a new follower: PromoCodedotorg.
Makes me wonder about those bots circling the web, looking for related keywords in order to advertise themselves. Considering that each time, I received a new follower within at most a day of posting my status, it's pretty efficient. Marketing at its finest, hey!
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