Finally (June 2026) I am ready to admit that I was involved in spamming #gorillapenis to twitter to make it trending (for teh LOLZ)
Preparation
Wiki article planning the event 2009-07-05-operation-shitter-insurgen.pdf
We had various ways to help people do the spamming, easiest was a link that pre-populates the message. And we had few auto scripts:
- 2009-07-05-twitter_python.txt (for this one I helped write, the code account registration)
- 2009-07-05-twitter_perl.txt
- 2009-07-05-twitter_php.txt
Then outreach and spread the message.
Scope
Then this happened
Aftermath
Few articles and few books mention this event:
- 2009-07-05-operation-twitter-spam-guardian.pdf
- 2009-07-05-twitter-pranks-pcworld.pdf
- 2009-07-05-gorilla-penis-avn.pdf
- “Custodians of the Internet” by Terleton Gillespie; Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS/NEW HAVEN & LONDON © 2018