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Tweeting cats - Another Ingenious Use of Twitter

Posted April 23, 2009 9:17 AM

From Newlaunches.com:

Plants tweeting for water to babies twittering from their mother's womb the micro blogging site has many a uses. The one that takes the cake comes from a couple who have put a sensor on their cat door and RFID tags on their cat’s collars that triggers a Delphi application which sends a Tweet (with custom randomized message) every time their cats go in or out the door.

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04/23/2009 9:20 AM

I wish my cat would Twitter! Although the only messages would be "food now," "I want attention," or "open a window". It's probably better that she can't...

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04/23/2009 11:00 PM

nope too much time on CR4, maybe this is something for dell?

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04/23/2009 9:24 AM

Don't know about cats, but I bet my beagles sure would have some interesting tweets!

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04/24/2009 2:21 AM

Anyone seen Del ? ?

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04/24/2009 5:53 AM

I've always wanted to attach a small camera to a cat and see what it sees while wandering the neighborhood.

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04/25/2009 1:03 PM

Oh boy, now we can keep tabs on Del. Neat!

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04/25/2009 7:19 PM

On the other hand, it might be Del keeping tabs on us !

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04/25/2009 11:04 PM

Rats,I hadn't thought of that.

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04/26/2009 12:21 AM

The CIA did

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04/26/2009 3:30 AM

I got scanned for any bugging devices...(or at least, that's what they said the vet was doing)

I remember a while back seeing pics of 'where my cat has been all day' from a collar mounted camera...dunno if it was CR4... some really interesting (to a cat) under car shots.
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04/26/2009 12:59 PM

I used to have a cat... lived outside most of the time. but.. one fall night there was a screeching at the back door... and there was the cat, with all the skin gone frome its tail.. seemed it was sleeping on the warm engine block of the neightbors car... when the neighbor had to go... yooowwlll..

so don't do that okay

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04/26/2009 8:19 PM

Aren't Fleas bugs? CIA bugs?

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