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		<title>Dear Mr (Or Ms) Automated Twitter Following Bot&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Hancox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for choosing to follow me on Twitter, based on the fact that a keyword I used happened to trigger your automatic follow system. It&#8217;s good to know someone (albeit an automated &#8220;Bot&#8221;) is reading my tweets! (I appear to be very popular with the Automatons.)
However, permit me to express some amusement&#8230;
As a human [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for choosing to follow me on Twitter, based on the fact that a keyword I used happened to trigger your automatic follow system. It&#8217;s good to know someone (albeit an automated &#8220;Bot&#8221;) is reading my tweets! (I appear to be very popular with the Automatons.)</p>
<p>However, permit me to express some amusement&#8230;</p>
<p>As a human of flesh and blood, I decided to take a look at your Twitter profile, and notice you&#8217;re growing incredibly popular very quickly. The email that Twitter sent me to tell me you&#8217;re following me said you have 1,248 follows, and now I look at your profile, you have 1,415&#8230; an extra 167 in 2 hours. As a Bot, you must have a lot of good things to say!</p>
<p>Except that I looked at your last 10 tweets, and it seems you promote your own product a lot. However, to be fair to you&#8230; you also provide a blend of inspirational Zig Ziglar quotes, so I can be inspired while receiving your plugs in my Twitter stream every 3 hours.</p>
<p>So maybe I&#8217;d consider following you back (after all, who in their right mind wouldn&#8217;t want inspirational quotes?), except I have a feeling our relationship would be a little, you know&#8230; &#8220;one-sided&#8221;.</p>
<p>Except, too late&#8230; it looks like you unfollowed me already. Wow, that&#8217;s mean!</p>
<p>I guess I didn&#8217;t &#8220;make up my mind&#8221; to be your follower in time. (Your owner obviously set a short unfollow time!) I guess I lost out on the opportunity of a lifetime there, along with those Zig Ziglar quotes.</p>
<p>Ah well, I guess I will have to get my inspiration and product plugs elsewhere.</p>
<p>Farewell&#8230; until the next bot. [sigh]</p>
<p><em>Twitter users, please <a title="Retweet This On Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=RT+%40paulhancox++Dear+Mr+(Or+Ms)+Automated+Twitter+Following+Bot...++http://bit.ly/zwPjf">click here</a> to retweet this easily and guarantee yourself a place in my expansive heart &#8211; you might also enjoy following the human being known as <a title="Paul Hancox is on Twitter!" href="http://twitter.com/paulhancox" target="_blank">@paulhancox</a> &#8211; whose stock of Zig Ziglar quotes is incredibly limited.</em></p>
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