{"id":4530,"date":"2008-09-15T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T22:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2019-12-23T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:05:01","slug":"do-bats-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/09\/15\/do-bats-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Bats Tweet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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interesting additions to people I&#8217;m following on Twitter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/the_J0KER\" title=\"Twitter: the_JOKER\">The Joker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Harvey_Dent\" title=\"Twitter: Harvey_Dent\">Harvey Dent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Rachel_Dawes\" title=\"Twitter: Rachel_Dawes\">Rachel Dawes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/James_Gordon\" title=\"Twitter: James_Gordon\">Commissioner Gordon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Lucius_Fox\" title=\"Twitter: Lucius_Fox\">Lucius Fox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/_brucewayne\" title=\"Twitter: _brucewayne\">Bruce Wayne<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/_Harley_Quinn\" title=\"Twitter: _Harley_Quinn\">Harley Quinn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/the_R1DDLER\" title=\"Twitter: the_R1DDLER\">Edward Nygma<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dr_crane\" title=\"Twitter: dr_crane\">Dr. Jonathan Crane<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TW0_FACE\" title=\"Twitter: TW0_FACE\">Two Face<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GothamCableNews\" title=\"Twitter: GothamCableNews\">Gotham Cable News<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GothamPD\" title=\"Twitter: GothamPD\">Gotham Police Department<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/the_J0KER\" title=\"Twitter: the_JOKER\">the Joker<\/a> through a Wired article yesterday (I think). Today <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Rachel_Dawes\" title=\"Twitter: Rachel_Dawes\">Rachel<\/a> started following me, and I found most of the rest directly and indirectly through her, except for <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/the_R1DDLER\" title=\"Twitter: the_R1DDLER\">Edward<\/a>, who added me while I was exploring.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure <em>exactly<\/em> what&#8217;s going on here, but it&#8217;s intriguing so far. While it could be a tie-in to the current movie, it&#8217;s obviously working at least somewhat on its own chronology, as (slight spoilers here) a couple of those people are no more as of the end of the movie. At the same time, a couple more of those characters haven&#8217;t popped up in the current movie timeline, so perhaps there&#8217;s some long-term advance campaign for the next movie, whenever it comes along?<\/p>\n<p>In any case, they&#8217;re actually savvy enough to have some sort of actual people behind the personas; there&#8217;s been some interaction with other Twitterers that they&#8217;re not solely advertising &#8216;bots. They may not stay on my Twitter list long-term, but for the moment, they&#8217;ve peaked my curiosity enough to keep an eye on them.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly related accounts that just appeared on Twitter in the last few days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KendraLuehr\" title=\"Twitter: KendraLuehr\">Kendra Luehr<\/a> appears to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;q=Kendra+Luehr+&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=\" title=\"Google for Kendra Leuhr\">prolific fan<\/a>, but she&#8217;s had a lot of back-and-forth with many of the personas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/miranda_dent\" title=\"Twitter: miranda_dent\">Miranda Dent<\/a> seems to be a fanfic character, possibly one of Kendra&#8217;s?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/xxnadsxx\" title=\"Twitter: xxnadsxx\">Nada Shatila<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have much of a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/xxnadsxx\" title=\"Twitter: xxnadsxx\">web footprint<\/a>, but is also chattering with the people listed above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the Joker through a Wired article yesterday (I think). Today Rachel started following me, and I found most of the rest directly and indirectly through her, except for Edward, who added me while I was exploring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[464,23,241],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-batman","tag-film","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}