This makes for an interesting thought experiment: Maybe all the people I follow on Twitter but don't know in real life aren't real, but merely a series of pre-

This makes for an interesting thought experiment: Maybe all the people I follow on Twitter but don't know in real life aren't real, but merely a series of pre-generated messages, served up by a scheduler. Replies are done with fancy natural language processing and monitoring of what's popular on the web. Retweets and follows are triggered by your social graph and cookie history.