Tweeting From The Grave?

That is precisely what the service LivesOn hopes to provide when it launches. As sort of the modern day equivalent of the movie “P.S. I Love You,” family, friends and other Twitter followers will soon be able to see tweets from a deceased Twitter user long after the user’s death. LivesOn promises “[w]hen your heart stops beating, you’ll keep Tweeting.” The service works by analyzing your tweets to learn a user’s personal preferences and syntax. LivesOn then begins to generate tweets to your personalized feed. While living, the user may provide feedback on these tweets to further train and perfect the service. After the user dies, the service will continue to post tweets to the user’s feed. According to LivesOn spokesman Dave Bedwood, the project began as a fun experiment, but believes that the service will become a very helpful tool for the living. By analyzing a user’s tweets and learning what a user likes, the service can suggest similar Internet articles and videos that the user may also enjoy.

Besides the obvious creepiness factor, critics of the service have voiced concerns over how the post-mortem social networking tool will affect coping with death and grief.

Sources: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/02/_liveson-new-service-to-let-you-tweet-when-youre-dead/ http://www.ibtimes.com/liveson-grants-twitter-life-after-death-social-media-great-beyond-1175641

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