Puppy Tweets

Posted on Nov 22, 2010 by 4 Comments
Puppy Tweets

I am a dog person. And I am a Twitter person.

But the question is, do I want my dog on Twitter?

Don’t laugh. This is for real. If you want to stay up to date with your dog when you’re away, you need to get your dog into the 21st century and put him on Twitter. Pronto.

You do it with Puppy Tweets.

You put a Puppy Tweets dogtag on your pup’s collar. You put a USB receiver into your home computer. Whenever your dog moves, eats, barks, etc. the Puppy Tweets dogtag senses the motion and signals the USB receiver to send one of 500 humorous tweets to be tweeted out from your dog’s account.

Puppy Tweets raises lots of pressing questions for me and my Twitter account, though.

Do I want my Twitter friends to follow my dog as well? What if my dog sees a rabbit in the yard and barks for 30 minutes – how many tweets will it send out? Will 4,562 tweets per day from my dog clutter up my Twitter feed? Do I care what my dog is doing?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Now the Mattel website, which apparently is the proud owner of Puppy Tweets, says you can run your puppy’s tweets through your own account if you don’t want to set one up for your dog.

I really think my 1500 Twitter followers would appreciate 1, maybe 2 tweets from my dog. After that, they might report my dog as spam.

The Puppy Tweets site also says that they’re working on additional download packs, so that soon, there will be even more than 500 tweets for your dog to send you. Great.

Can’t you see Paris Hilton doing this with her dog? Of course, her dog lives in her purse, so maybe not.

You can buy Puppy Tweets at Amazon for about $25. If you’re into this sort of thing.

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Gigi Ross

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Comments

  • Julie C.

    Kind of funny … but those tweets had better be HYSTERICAL to warrant paying $25 for canned messages. If we have this technology, can’t it used for good rather than silly? Like telling me if the dog is sick, or chewing my shoes, or sleeping on the couch even though she’s not allowed on the furniture when we’re home?

    I’ve heard of pet cams that take snapshots from a cam on your pet’s collar so you know what they’re up to and looking at. My friend put one on her hat and it took 50 photos of the same view looking from the window onto the street – where the cat had sat for hours.

  • Julie C.

    uh… “put one on her CAT” not her hat … whoops, typo. :D

  • Jenny L.

    Julie C puts it well, again. This sounds pretty silly, annoying, too. Who needs prefed messages in thier twitter account for every bark? I think it is as unneccasary as it is unwanted.

  • http://plrfoster.blogspot.com DonnaJean

    I just got a Puppy Tweets for my foster dog. I work through a rescue, and any exposure for these fur babies is great!

    I have her set up, and asked everyone who’s interested to follow her! On top of the blog that I post, I’m hoping it will get Lily some attention and hopefully a fur-ever home soone!