Is the Creator of @Horse_Ebooks Playing Us for Fools?

Has @Horse_ebooks become self-aware? And has it started self-promoting?

Some background: It is thought that @Horse_ebooks, the funny Twitter robot that chops and screws snippets of text from ebooks and marketing pitches, then regurgitates them into surreal found poetry on Twitter, is entirely automated, and that its aleatory tweets are the happy by-product of a misguided and nonsensical attempt to market ebooks.

However, a debate raged at one point in 2011, when the feed, whose popularity had just then exploded, started churning out funny Tweets at a higher rate than it had previously, when novelties like Famous Crab and This is not acceptable! I screamed as Ka…
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