Joburg badger tweets about zoo life

If you thought the online world is a zoo, you actually have no idea. A badger from Gauteng has joined the Twitter-verse. BG, a resident at the Johannesburg Zoo, has become the first honey-badger to tweet about his life and activities at his home. Thanks to a digital agency, BG's enclosure has been fitted with high-tech sensors that detect his every move. They are connected wirelessly to a base-station located just outside the enclosure. That station is linked to the agency's server, which hosts a database of pre-written tweets. As BG moves around his camp, he trips the sensors which then send tweets to his followers. If he is munching at his food bowl, he will trigger a food-related tweet, for example. The Johannesburg Zoo says it wanted to find a novel way to build its digital presence and to promote its social media account, so it handed it to ‘someone’ who knows the Zoo inside out.