Track the carbon footprint of a hashtag.
Simply enter a hashtag below to get its CO2 emissions from the last hour, today, week, month, and all time.
TWEETS GENERATE CO2
The energy it takes to send a tweet generates .02 grams of CO2.1 With 500 million tweets sent daily2, a total of 10 metric tons of CO2 are emitted per day.
HUMAN FARTS
Did you know? Human farts produce CO2 and on average, contain about the same amount of CO2 as tweet farts do.3 It’s true.
REFERENCES
1Jaymi Heimbuch “Twittering Adds How Much to Your Carbon Footprint?..” Treehugger, April 19, 2010, accessed February 20, 2012.
2Daniel Terdiman. “Report: Twitter hits half a billion tweets a day.” CNET, October 26, 2012, accessed February 16, 2013.
3J Tomlin, C Lowis, and N W Read. “Investigation of normal flatus production in healthy volunteers..” GUT: An International Journal in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, June 1991. pp. 665-669.