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Energy Monitoring With Twitter

Posted on September 02, 2008

by Marguerite Manteau-RaoThis week, I started a new experiment, this time using Twitter to monitor my energy consumption 24/7. A Web 2.0 version of my earlier Daily Footprint Project, when I kept a diary of all my carbon footprinting activities for 30 days. The project is called green_watch and you can follow it on Twitter. I was inspired by IBM researcher Andy Stanford-Clark's recent home energy monitoring project, andy_home , also on Twitter, and also by my ongoing fiddlings with Twitter. I am convinced Twitter is an underused social networking tool, that offers tremendous potential for b...

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