I’ve decided to run a bit of a social media exper­i­ment using Twit­ter which I’m call­ing “Bot or Not”.

Essen­tially the aim is to tweet a ran­dom bunch of brand names and industry-specific acronyms (SEO, PPC, etc) to see if I gain any auto­mated fol­low­ers and, more import­antly, to see which brands have a human­ised buzz mon­it­or­ing strategy in place.

To begin with, it will be any brand that I ran­domly spot in whichever room of my house I’m in but there is the poten­tial to start look­ing at more spe­cific brands.

The exper­i­ment begins tonight and will run as long as I can. I’ll post res­ults on a monthly basis.

Why don’t you join in? Just tweet a list of brand names with the hashtag #botornot and we’ll see what happens!