Sleeping on a planter at the Port Authority...

[autographedcat]

I'm often amused to see what Twitter bots follow you based on what you post there. All manner of random commercial enterprises have suddenly followed me after a casual(and often completely devoid of context) reference to a product, place, or activity. Tourism sites, personal trainers, rap DJs...its like a bizarre form of bingo where no one ever wins anything.

This happens to a lesser degree on Livejournal, particularly if you haven't disabled anonymous comments. But it's fairly uncommon, at least enough so that I never really gave it a lot of thought, until this particular post began to attract the spambots. I've deleted at least five in the last couple of weeks.

I wonder what there is about my amusing but inconsequential exchange with a drugstore clerk has attracted so much interest from the sub-sentient crawlers of the blogosphere? Most of them seem to be trying to sell me knock-off designer clothing or boots, which makes me suspect it was the paragraph about looking for vests. But their persistence is puzzling.

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[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

They're very sporadic and intermittent, which is why the fascination with that one post was bemusing.

[billroper]

Once a spammer finds a post that accepts comments, he'll keep returning to it. I finally just disabled anonymous comments, because I was tired of deleting them.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but in the pats, one pops up, i delete it, and never hear from them again.

This one keeps coming back to tag the same point. I just find it odd.