The Twitterbots

Hey, some of you, maybe some for Indonesians, you may see these annoying Twitter accounts. These are them and the explanation:

In the tweet: “alayers don’t fight, for sure! :x”.

Alay literally means the outdated pity people who want to make their own mode style. Usually associated with poor people. However, all about alay has been repeatedly posted on this blog, here and here. Despite on the name, Alayers actually have an outdated style of typing on the net and SMS, which is popular circa 2004-2005. Since there is no real Alay people interested with Twitter (I don’t know why, but the simplicity of Twitter has its limitations among them), Indonesians are joking around about them in Twitter, and led to a person who make an account and leave it with a bot to search public tweets who said certain thing such as 4L4Y or alay or whatever else. People started to be annoyed.

In the tweet: “baby, can I join your buber? ”

Buber or Bukber literally means Buka Puasa Bersama or in English is To Break Fast Together (Not to be confused with breakfast). This form of gathering is always exist on the holy month of Ramadhan, the Islamic fasting ritual. People who in this kind of gathering are gather in the dusk then waiting for the Maghrib athan, when they are permitted to eat/drink. So, when the previous Ramadhan, Buka Puasa Bersama is so common and popular way to gather and hang out in a food place. People are planning this on Twitter, then this account created, and use Justin Bieber name. This account use the same method with the previous one, but this rather make a 3rd party application which is already popular, Twitterfeed. However, this blog use Twitterfeed to deliver its content via RSS, not by search.

In the tweet: “Dirty mouth! Let me wash it. RT @????? ASSHOLE!”

Tukang Sabun Cuci means the Washing Soap Seller. Actually, this is better, I ‘d rather like it. It generates its tweets when people said dirty words in Bahasa Indonesia such as “Ngentot” (fuck, to copulate), “Bangsat” (asshole), or etc. However, the method of tweeting still same.

In the tweet: “Brother, why you talking like that? RT @????? fuck, why fb have no walltowall anymore -,-"

Adik Balita simply means kid. This tweet still have same method as mentioned above. So, this tweet reminds people among their words, such as “Ngentot” (fuck, to copulate), “Kontol” (penis), etc. However, I actually also like this tweet.

How this is done actually?

As stated before, they (the bots) do search for public timeline and just old-style-RT them. So, I think some of you actually annoyed with them. There are soooo many Twitter account like this. To avoid these tweets messing around you, I have 2 simple tips for you:

1. Watch your tweets, actually, adik_Balita and tukangsabuncuci is the way better. They warns your word nicely, and bring you letting the Scandal-like-things far far away from you.
2. Just protect your account. They will not be able to locate your tweets

Just don’t ask me how to create it. Although I know the way, but it’s nonsense to tell it to you.

Posted in: Instant Messaging,Social Networking,Twitter