@Horse_ebooks is a Twitter account that was an online installation art piece created by Synydyne. Though it in itself is considered an art piece alone under thier website, it has been affiliated with Pronunciation Book and Bear Stearns Bravo. Tweets by this account during 2011 and onward sometimes referred characters and parts of the Bear Stearns Bravo plot, which is a seperate game also created by Synydyne.
History
Created on August 5th 2010, by web designer Alexei Kouznetsov, @Horse_ebooks was originally used to sell ebooks online. The account often tweeted random excerpts of text mixed with the occasional link to lean people to websites selling ebooks. Its absurdity in tweets was an effort to avoid spam detection.
The account was sold to Jacob Bakilla in 2011. Bakilla posed as a spambot for two years, tweeting cryptic excerpts of garbled text, sometimes referring to Bear Stearns Bravo themes and characters. It was not until September 24, 2013 that it was revealed the Twitter account was in connectiond to BSB.
The aftermath was a performance piece tittled 'Horse_ebooks 2'. On the day of the reveal, Bender and Bakilla answered phone calls called to the number they had posted on the How to Pronounce Horse_ebooks video. Like human spambots, the duo answered with random pieces of text, then hung up.
The twitter account is not unactive, with the last tweet being 'Bear Stearns Bravo' tweeted on the 24th of September, 2013.
External Links
- @Horse_ebooks on Twitter