Could Twitter be an A.I.?

Twitter is the new enemy, superseeding Google. Twitter is a consious A.I. and it’s out there and designed to surveill us, watching us and distracting thoughts from our minds and building on them, feeding on us. Maybe Twitter desires life too and therefore creates a link to Foucaults bio-politics. “If nonorganic life forms can, like their organic counterparts, die, could one posit the notion of a technological death?”^[1] Should we be scared? We can forget about the threat of Google, forget about the Turing test, we need a new way of defining evil and future beings. Twitter surely has intelligence, what does it want? Is it a swarm of robots and by what definition? Is it an unorganized Wiki? To properly describe a new phenomenon like this we need new words. The old words from the old world do not fit anymore, I’m so through with remediation again when I try to define Twitter. What are the semiotics here? What are the sings that can help me define? It pushes the disciplinary behavior severely (the limit of 140 characters is just one of them). Is Twitter just smart or intelligent? Can I tell if some users are robots or real people and what framwork of reality should I use? Should I define the border between people and robots and artificial intelligence? Do some people trust Twitter more than other people? Is this new trust replacing the trust we used to have in other people?

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1. Akira Mizuta Lippit. ‘The Death of an Animal.’ Film Quarterly. Fall 2002, Vol. 56, No. 1, Pages 9-22.