LivesOn: Twitter ghost keeps tweeting when you're dead


The salmon mousse: Monty Python imagined the Grim Reaper at a dinner party. Does Death do social media? Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET




Developers claim the app's artificial-intelligence engine will analyze your Twitter feed, learn your likes and syntax, and then post tweets in a similar vein when you're gone.

You'll become an AI construct, a proverbial ghost in the machine.



"It offends some, and delights others," Dave Bedwood, a partner at the ad agency behind LivesOn, was quoted as saying in the Guardian report.

"Imagine if people started to see it as a legitimate but small way to live on. Cryogenics costs a fortune; this is free and I'd bet it will work better than a frozen head."


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