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You are here: Home / Kitty Wisdom / Cat Twitter Invention Is for Twits

Cat Twitter Invention Is for Twits

June 3, 2010 By: Sparkle Cat20 Comments

Humans... what stupid thing will they come up with next?

I was going to post about something else today, but there is a news item floating around the internet and I want to give it my paw of disdain. Sony Computer Science Laboratories has come up with a device that posts on Twitter for your cat during her daily activities. The human latches the thing to the cat’s collar and it collects data on what she is doing and Tweets accordingly. As a cat (and as one who already has a “device”-free Twitter account), I can assure you that this whole concept is a lotta baloney (and I don’t mean the tasty lunchmeat). Let me name the reasons why:

Look ma, I'm Tweeting with NO stupid device around my neck!

  • This device spits out just 11 phrases. According to my own Twitter account, over the past two years, I have Tweeted nearly 4,700 unique phrases. Okay, some of them are re-Tweets, but I’m sure that still leaves at least 3,500 original Tweets.
  • These phrases are human written. No cat I know wants a human speaking for her. The day that Sony — or some other company with more time than sense on its hands — comes up with a device that correctly discerns what we are thinking and then translates it into a human language such as English, Japanese or whatever, then they may be onto something.
  • Wait a minute — we already have translators to get our Tweets on the internet! They’re called “servants,” “employees,” “administrative assistants” or even less succinctly, the human we live with who gives us food and buys us cat trees. If inventors are trying to replace some of these duties, why not replace all of them? Then we won’t need humans at all. We can just have a little box around our necks that gives us food and spends extravagant amounts of money on us for our amusement.

Seriously, I don’t know what these developers are thinking. If they had looked at Twitter any time in the past, oh, three years or so, they might have noticed that there are already cats on there. Thousands of cats. Many of them, like me, also have thousands of followers (but apparently none from Sony Computer Science Laboratories). In fact, one of the most popular accounts on Twitter, period, is Sockington, a Boston-based former stray with over a million and a half followers. None of these cats needed something strung around their necks to Tweet, and most of them have come up with 140-character bursts of inspiration that would put anything pre-programmed to shame. So guys, uh, please put your dumb idea in the litter box where it belongs and get working on a really useful idea… like a device that calls birds to your cat’s favorite window — or even better yet, opens the window once the birds have appeared.

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Comments

  1. siamese peaches says

    June 17, 2010 at 8:40 am

    We’re a fan of beautiful Sparkle on Twitter, Peaches wonders if the device is just an invasion of privacy?? She would be a poor candidate, she refuses to wear an itchy collar!

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  2. bingkee says

    June 5, 2010 at 7:43 am

    How do cats twit? Do they “meow”.?..hehehe

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  3. Zippy, Sadie and Speedy says

    June 4, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    Yoo tell ’em Sparkle. Stoopid humans.

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  4. Rebecca says

    June 4, 2010 at 12:20 pm

    Agree with you all the way, Sparkle! My own cats have loads of stuff to say and would certainly be quite disdainful of this silly device.

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  5. Cat Lady Diary says

    June 4, 2010 at 11:28 am

    We agree, it’s for twits!!!

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  6. WillOaks Studio says

    June 3, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    It’s hard to take this Sony invention seriously….but is it April Fools Day again?

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  7. Your Daily Cute says

    June 3, 2010 at 7:24 pm

    Ah… but can they make a cat BLOG, too? 😉 The real thing is much better.

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  8. The Island Cats says

    June 3, 2010 at 6:27 pm

    Another big waste of $$$!!!

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  9. Ratty says

    June 3, 2010 at 5:23 pm

    How could a cat wear this device when they already have computers? And why would any respectable cat want anything to do with it if it doesn’t have a mouse?

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  10. Sherkhan says

    June 3, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Oh… I agree with the Lounge cats… WE NEED THUMBS!

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  11. Katnip Lounge says

    June 3, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    We agree, this is one of the dumber things Humans have invented. Sony needs to get busy and invent us some thumbs, instead!

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  12. Black Cat says

    June 3, 2010 at 1:58 pm

    The very idea is ridiculous! Cats speak for themselves and use beans to type their tweets. No dongle can read the mind of a cat, innit!

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  13. Toby & Leia says

    June 3, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    We’re fans of Sockington. He’s pretty cool. And we agree – technology has nothing desirable to offer the feline in society.. ‘cept maybe better cat trees.

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  14. Mishkat says

    June 3, 2010 at 12:47 pm

    Ha ha – we read the news story and we think it’s the silliest idea ever! We also think it’s an invasion of feline privacy!

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  15. animalartist says

    June 3, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    I’d like to see what my cats decided to tweet, but not translated by Sony. They’d probably tweet stupid insults about each other, that’s what seems to fly around here anyway.

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  16. Grace says

    June 3, 2010 at 10:31 am

    Indeed, there are some things I really don’t want to know about – from cats or any one else!

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  17. BeadedTail says

    June 3, 2010 at 9:55 am

    We can’t believe someone at Sony thought we’d want to read human written tweets for cats? Geesh.

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  18. Raymond and Busby says

    June 3, 2010 at 6:37 am

    We certainly wouldn’t want to tweet EVERYTHING we do throughout our day!

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  19. Harry Spotter says

    June 3, 2010 at 5:56 am

    We give it our paws of distain too. Anything to make a buck. Very sad !

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  20. Rumblepurr says

    June 3, 2010 at 1:30 am

    You tell em Miss Sparkle!!

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