KFC Twitter follows 11 accounts, intrigues internet

October 21, 2017 at 2:46 a.m. | Updated October 21, 2017 at 2:36 a.m.

by Associated Press

This Nov. 4, 2013, file photo, shows the icon for the Twitter app on an iPhone in San Jose, Calif. Twitter continues to find creative ways to ease its 140-character limit on tweets without officially raising it. Now, the company says that when you reply to someone, or to a group, usernames will no longer count toward those 140 characters. In the fall of 2016, Twitter said it would stop counting photos, videos, quote tweets, polls and GIF animations toward the character limit.
This Nov. 4, 2013, file photo, shows the icon for the Twitter app on an iPhone in San Jose, Calif. Twitter continues to find creative ways to ease its 140-character limit on tweets without officially raising it. Now, the company says that when you reply to someone, or to a group, usernames will no longer count toward those 140 characters. In the fall of 2016, Twitter said it would stop counting photos, videos, quote tweets, polls and GIF animations toward the character limit.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-A Twitter user has earned kudos online for discovering a subtle message on KFC's account.

The KFC account follows just 11 users; five of them are former members of the Spice Girls and the other six are men named Herb, including Green Bay Packers cornerback Herb Waters and music legend Herb Alpert. It adds up to 11 herbs and spices, part of the famous secret recipe KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders touted for his fried chicken.

The connection was noticed on Twitter by a user who goes by "Edge." His tweet about it has been shared hundreds of thousands of times on the platform.

KFC tells The Associated Press it has been following the 11 Herbs and Spices for about a month.

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