Though it had been round for some time earlier than then, 2011 was the yr that Twitter first began popping off for all sorts of reasons, and that means manufacturers began taking discover. One of these manufacturers was the toy large Mattel, which that yr launched PuppyTweets, a gadget that promised to let your canine participate within the new hotness that was Twitter Dot Com.

In observe, PuppyTweets is only a plastic tag hooked as much as an related Twitter account that you simply, the proprietor, arrange. When then tag detects some kind of jostling or barking, it randomly posts one in all 500 completely different canned doggy tweets to that account: one thing like “woof,” or “bark,” I’d assume. At the time, Mattel Brands President Neil Friedman said that the product was “a new frontier,” on the earth of human-pet interplay. But actually, PuppyTweets is only a solution to inflict the unique hell of the world’s worse social community onto your poor hapless pup.