[stordoff]

Somewhat related, can anyone explain this Twitter account[1] to me? I stumbled across it about a week ago. It appears to be a bot that copied some of my (and others') HN posts to an external site (with a link back to HN), and then tweeted about it from an account claiming to be about the 'flu.

It doesn't really bother me; I'm just not sure what it is trying to achieve.

[1] https://twitter.com/FluViruses/status/698733674913755136

[dragonbonheur]

It's trying to get their twitter profile (which contains a link to their site) ranked by using links from HN posts which contains links to other sites even though the context of the links differ It would have been smarter to repost links and RSS feeds of medical blogs...