The 10 Strangest Things Tweeting

What are the geekiest uses of Twitter? Appfrica’s compiled a round up of ’strange things tweeting’ that includes a House, a Space Shuttle, a plant and even an unborn child…

Plants. Botanicall’s DIY kit allows anyone to allow their plant to talk to them using Twitter.

sample tweet: Ease off, buddy. You over-watered me.

A Fetus. ITP student Corey Menscher designed a kick sensor which monitors his pregnant wife’s belly, and generates a fetal tweet whenever the baby kicks.

sample tweet: Wow I’m being very active! I kicked Mommy 84 times at 03:44AM on Thu, Dec 11!

The United States of America’s National Debt. This one is brilliant, it just gets bigger and bigger.

sample tweet: $10,648,440,877,251.63

Africa. Yup, the whole continent. Actually it’s just facts and photos from Africa. We should know, we run it!

sample tweet: ‘Many African villages are purposely laid out to form perfect mathematical shapes called fractals.’ – Ron Eglash http://is.gd/aiCp

Nasa’s Space Shuttle Endeavor. Now that the Mars Phoenix Lander account is no longer tweeting pics and facts about the planet, Endeavor is the most interesting thing tweeting from off the planet.

sample tweet: Endeavour is now 39 miles altitude, traveling at 12,750 mph and 1,200 miles from the landing site.

London’s Tower Bridge. The second most famous bridge in London has a Twitter account.

sample tweet: I am opening for the SB Will, which is passing downstream.

Low Flying Rocks. Just before all of humanity was wiped off the face of the planet, you’d know. Why? Because it would be tweeted.

sample tweet: 2007 VD3 just passed the Earth at 8km/s, approximately twenty-four million, seven hundred thousand km away.

The Hubble Telescope. If there’s life on other planets we’ll never know because the Hubble is too busy tweeting on it’s two twitter accounts to notice!

sample tweet: Hubble Finds Carbon Dioxide on an Extrasolar Planet: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide.. http://tinyurl.com/6ywufr

A Time Traveler. Poor Amos ended up stuck in 1908 and somehow managed to find a laptop and an internet connection. Rather than get disgusting rich like that guy in Back to the Future, he just tweets about what was going on exactly 100 years ago to the day.

sample tweet: Wanted a Martini but it’s yet to be invented. Instead ordered a Martinez. Much sweeter. More vermouth than gin. Plus some liqueur & bitters.

A House. IBM’s Andy Stanford-Clark configured his house to tweet it’s energy use. It monitors his utility usage, when he turns the lights on and off and alerts him when his trending is a bit outside of the norm.

sample tweet: “unusually” high electricity use (46p per hour for 10 mins)