It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses, and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use, which adds up to a significant amount of carbon dioxide and other gasses into the atmosphere. And our use of digital media as a way of socializing and communicating is no small piece of that pie, as Facebook’s electricity bill has proven. But breaking it down to smaller components like single tweets can be a more difficult task. However, one of the guys from Twitter recently gave a talk on the energy use and carbon footprint of twittering, including just how much each tweet takes up.
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