<p>Ghost writer! A new application will soon allow users to keep posting Twitter updates even from beyond the grave.<br /><br />The app independently uses intricate knowledge of a person’s on-line character to create a virtual continuation of their personality after death.</p>.<p>“When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting,” says the new application’s tagline.</p>.<p>To be launched in March, the app called LivesOn uses Twitter bots powered by algorithms that analyse your on-line behaviour and learn how you speak, the Guardian reported.<br />It will keep on scouring the Internet, favouriting tweets and posting the sort of links you like, creating a personal digital afterlife.<br /><br />“It divides people on a gut level, before you even get to the philosophical and ethical arguments,” said Dave Bedwood, creative partner of Lean Mean Fighting Machine, the London-based ad agency that is developing it.<br /><br />“It offends some, and delights others. Imagine if people started to see it as a legitimate but small way to live on. Cryogenics costs a fortune; this is free and I’d bet it will work better than a frozen head,” Bedwood said.<br /><br />Mia Smith, a business owner in her mid-40s, has already registered her interest. For her, it is the chance to have a “kind of ironic legacy” that drew her in.<br /><br />“But I’m not sure who’d be interested in reading a computer-generated ‘me’,” she said.<br />The growth of “digital legacies” is already throwing up legal and ethical issues: it’s a violation of many websites’ terms of service for surviving relatives to go on using your passwords.<br /><br />Social networking site Facebook has already gone to court to oppose the idea that families can force it to hand over data, the report said.<br /><br />People who sign up for LivesOn is asked to nominate an executor who will have control of the account. Another service, DeadSocial, puts the power in the deceased’s hands.<br />The report said it is a “digital legacy tool” that lets you set up a series of messages to be sent out posthumously, via Facebook and Twitter. <br /><br /></p>
<p>Ghost writer! A new application will soon allow users to keep posting Twitter updates even from beyond the grave.<br /><br />The app independently uses intricate knowledge of a person’s on-line character to create a virtual continuation of their personality after death.</p>.<p>“When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep tweeting,” says the new application’s tagline.</p>.<p>To be launched in March, the app called LivesOn uses Twitter bots powered by algorithms that analyse your on-line behaviour and learn how you speak, the Guardian reported.<br />It will keep on scouring the Internet, favouriting tweets and posting the sort of links you like, creating a personal digital afterlife.<br /><br />“It divides people on a gut level, before you even get to the philosophical and ethical arguments,” said Dave Bedwood, creative partner of Lean Mean Fighting Machine, the London-based ad agency that is developing it.<br /><br />“It offends some, and delights others. Imagine if people started to see it as a legitimate but small way to live on. Cryogenics costs a fortune; this is free and I’d bet it will work better than a frozen head,” Bedwood said.<br /><br />Mia Smith, a business owner in her mid-40s, has already registered her interest. For her, it is the chance to have a “kind of ironic legacy” that drew her in.<br /><br />“But I’m not sure who’d be interested in reading a computer-generated ‘me’,” she said.<br />The growth of “digital legacies” is already throwing up legal and ethical issues: it’s a violation of many websites’ terms of service for surviving relatives to go on using your passwords.<br /><br />Social networking site Facebook has already gone to court to oppose the idea that families can force it to hand over data, the report said.<br /><br />People who sign up for LivesOn is asked to nominate an executor who will have control of the account. Another service, DeadSocial, puts the power in the deceased’s hands.<br />The report said it is a “digital legacy tool” that lets you set up a series of messages to be sent out posthumously, via Facebook and Twitter. <br /><br /></p>