Was Twitter Account Horse_ebooks A Prank, Or Art?

Horse_ebooks Twitter In September, the collective deflation of Twitter was almost audible. The famous, beloved account @Horse_ebooks was unveiled as a hoax--or, well, it was unveiled to be something, at least. Art? Maybe. We learned there was a pair of humans behind the account, and that they'd manufactured its tweets. The operators were mostly silent on the subject, but a New Yorker profile out this week finally helps us understand their motivations. The account--a malfunctioning text-robot, at...