Australian restaurant chain uses live chicken for tweets

“Betty” is the chain’s newest edition to its social media team. 

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Life once again imitates art as Australia’s The Chicken Treat is using a live chicken to tweet, somehow encouraging people to come into its locations and eat other chickens. Right? Is there something I’m missing here?

They’ve even named the chicken Betty. Here are some of Betty’s tweets, which the chain has dubbed “Chickenese”:

xz,, z q12“““`zz`1` gho ui ` 93“““`ja“““““““““ 9 1Q““““““““““J #chickentweet

— Chicken Treat (@ChickenTreat) October 18, 2015

6YVIT #chickentweet

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