The Wall Blog » Greg Taylor http://wallblog.co.uk Social, marketing, media : blogged Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tweeting from the afterlife http://wallblog.co.uk/2013/03/08/tweeting-from-the-afterlife/ http://wallblog.co.uk/2013/03/08/tweeting-from-the-afterlife/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:32:05 +0000 Greg Taylor http://wordpress.hbpl.co.uk/wallblog/?p=39889 This one’s a bit creepy, but fascinating too. ‘LivesOn’ is a new Twitter app, designed to tweet for you after you pass away. (Nice one, Darren)

Launching in March, the service uses Twitter bots powered by algorithms that analyse your online behaviour and learn how you speak. The app can then continues to scout the internet once you’ve passed away, favouriting tweets and posting the sort of links you like – creating a personal digital afterlife. As the tagline explains: “When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting.”

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Through a custom multi-touch interface, the company’s new 3LiveShop aims to give online customers virtually the same service they’d get in store.

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