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MyCyberTwin - your online clone. . .

April 5, 2007

Yesterday Jake asked if I had seen "MyCyberTwin" and I laughed saying, "I don’t have time for another Web 2.0 application". Then I saw a post from Mike Arrington about the service and decided to take a look. Mike explains what it is:

The company, which is based in Australia, creates an online “clone” of users based on a 79 question personality quiz and hundreds of additional training questions. Once it’s complete, a chat bot is created for that user, which has it’s own web page, can be embedded into MySpace or another website, or can log into Microsoft Messenger on your behalf and pretend to be you. The Michael Arrington clone, which is about 10% trained, is here. I’ve taught it to be as aggressively anti-social as possible.

I immediately yawned. Of course Mike figured out that it would be fun to have an "Evil CyberTwin" instead. I made a couple of jokes and today Jeremy and Scott showed me, "MyEvilCyberTwin". You can imagine what a chat session with Evil Mike would be like (if not, click here). Anyway, it should be up and running at http://myevilcybertwin.com. Here is a screenshot:

How does the Evil version of CyberTwin work? Simple, instead of 79 questions, it is preloaded with 80 sarcastic one-line insults. No need to create an account, login or answer a single question. Just give your Evil CyberTwin a name and a picture and you are good to go.

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog 

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