Tweeting also burns calories. A new application known as TweetCalories can give you details of calories burnt in previous 24 hours by sending tweets. This application is designed by Gargantuan Ad Agency Grupo ABC for a Brazilian gym, Companhia Athletica, as a marketing attempt.

It is free to use. Just visit the site and in the window type your user name and enter your gender.

On next page it shows how many tweets and retweets you have sent, characters typed and how many times you cursed others.

The app works by assuming several factors. For example, it’s figured that the average word length in a tweet is about 6 characters. It assumes the average user’s typing speed is 60 words per minute, that the user is of an average or healthy weight and normally burns around 2.65 calories per minute, and that it takes around 23 seconds to write and send a tweet of 140 characters. Based on these figures, the app’s creators have determined that sending a tweet burns around 1.03 calories.

This is a very funny application once you calculated it for yourself then for sure you will recommend it to your friends and family. Seems marketing experiment has paid off. Now tweeting can be a good excuse of working out with measurable results.

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