Explain This Twitter Thing... "Uhhh I seem to have accidentally walked from Davis to Harvard Sq..."

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

I have a Twitter search set up for "Davis Sq" just to see if there's anything going on that I might have missed.

I keep seeing the following message, posted by seemingly random people at random times. I did a Google search and found nothing.


Uhhh I seem to have accidentally walked from Davis to Harvard Sq…

It's been tweeted about 10 times in the last 3 days.

Anyone have a clue what it's about?

Comments

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

Quite possible. Looks like a newer kind of spambot than I've seen in the past (usually no followers & only a handful of tweets, no photo or only some hot girl, no description, names don't match). Several of the tweeters were normally looking accounts -- they had followers and had a decent number of tweets -- but the closer I look at the content, there seemed a lot of nonsensical stuff and some repeated content across users. Obviously there's something going on.

The linked article seems to think it's stealing a legit tweet and repeating it in an effort to look legit.

[fappyheet.livejournal.com]

Agreed, this is random reuse by fake accounts. Regular users often get spurious favorites of your normal tweets from these spam accounts in an attempt to gather both follow-backs and seem like a legit human. Just another way they want to evade Twitter's automated spam detection.