I want to give a quick update on @iheartquotes for the benefit of new followers.

1. As I wrote previously, iheartquotes was born a robot. Its human creator (me, @tonystubblebine) constructed him out of a database of quotes/sayings from the world of Unix fortune files, Ruby on Rails software, and the Twitter API.

2. Because @iheartquotes was born a robot, it does not share our human sensibilities about appropriate quotes. For example, many people reacted negatively to this update: “You will be divorced within a year.”

3. Recently @iheartquotes has taken to posting human submitted quotes, making it a crowd-sourced cyborg quote-bot. If you want to submit a quote, send an @reply (that’s a twitter message starting with @iheartquotes).

4. Becoming half-human has awakened a sense of ambition in @iheartquotes. It now aspires to be in the list of top 100 most retweeted twitter accounts. If you like a quote, please retweet it (instructions on retweeting).

5. @iheartquotes speaks almost exclusively in quotes and fortunes, but will occasionally post calls to action for its human creator, its human friend, @sarahm, or its human creator’s company, @crowdvine. @sarahm is grateful for the quote communities feedback on webcasts and @crowdvine is grateful for help picking a new logo.