Puppy Tweets Blue
- Tweets are the new Bark!
- Now you can get the 411 with text messages from Puppy Tweets!
- Comes pre-loaded with over 500 phrases
- Lets you connect with your pet over the Internet
- When your dog moves, barks, or naps the tag sends a Tweet via Twitter
Tweets are the new Barks! Ever wonder what your pup is doing while you’re away? Well, now you can get the 411 with text messages from Puppy Tweets! Whenever your dog moves, barks (or just naps), the tag knows it and sends a WiFi signal to your computer which then sends you a Tweet via Twitter. Simply set up a Twitter page for your dog and your Puppy Tweets tag starts generating Tweets. Puppy Tweets comes pre-loaded with over 500 phrases that put a humorous or insightful spin on your dog’s da
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(out of 10 reviews)
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 20.98
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Review by Joseph Palazzi for Puppy Tweets Blue
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I waited 5 months for PuppyTweets to come out. The day I received it I set up a Twitter account for my boy and hooked up the antenna to my PC. Got a couple tweets while it was around my dogs neck and thought it was lame but oh well. I took off his collar when it was bed time. Over the night we got 5 or 6 more tweets from him. I thought, ok, maybe it is close to the antenna and it thought he was laying down. Because the thing that goes on his collar was so big, I wasn’t going to leave it on him during the day in case he tried to eat it. I unplugged the antenna during the day when it wasn’t on his neck. Well, wouldn’t you know we got tweets from him…all day…1 an hour. For the next 2 days I left it unplugged and got a tweet once an hour. I have uninstalled the program from my computer, boxed up PuppyTweets and sent it back to Amazon.
Unfortunately, this product is a fake! The motion sensor, time of day and microphone have nothing to do with what it sends out.
Review by C. Vincent for Puppy Tweets Blue
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This sounded like an interesting idea to me… it basically comes down to a collar attachment that detects sound and motion from your dog and then wirelessly sends the info to a program on your computer, which then writes a short tweet on a twitter account set up for your dog. I didn’t have extremely high hopes for this device, but thought it would be fun to check in on my dogs during the day. I was hoping to be able to see a tweet every once in a while showing me that they were barking out the window, running around the house, or maybe napping while I was gone during the day. My low expectations weren’t even close to being met by this device.
2 major problems:
1) It’s really big! The device you hang on the dog’s collar is 2 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick. The chain it is suspended on is another 1.5 inches, basically making the entire device 3.5 inches hanging off your dog’s collar. This might not be a big deal to some larger dogs, but my 20 lb. shelties hated it. They would try to run and the puppytweets attachment would continually swing up and smack them in the face. They kept trying to bite it off and I constantly found them walking around with it in their mouth. They just hated having it on their collar. The most amusing thing that came out of buying this product is that the dog not wearing the device would try to chase after the other and grab on to the product while it was swinging around. They made a game out of this giant tag that flailed about while they ran. As I said though, this might not be a problem for larger dogs, and I would not have rated the product poorly just because of this aspect.
2) More importantly, it just doesn’t work well. Setting up a program to randomly tweet and say it was my dogs doing it probably would have the same result that using the device did.
Opening the box, you get 3 items: the tag that I described before, a rather large and clunky usb drive (hopefully you don’t have many usb ports close together if you plan on using this), and a separate 2032 battery. Basically, you set the device up by downloading a program from the puppytweet website, installing it, setting up the usb drive, and then unscrewing the tag, putting in the battery, pressing the reset button, and then letting the program do it’s setup. I had to go through the process a couple of times before it would actually match up with the tag, which is another gripe I have – there’s no way to tell if the tag is on or if it’s even working. A sound, light, or something would have been nice, but there’s nothing… and no way of telling if your battery is dead or not. It just tells you when it is matched. You go through a process of setting up a twitter account (or using an existing one), waiting for it to tell you the collar and USB drive are matched, and then put it on the dog’s collar and wait for the tweets.
An initial one came saying something like, “Puppy Tweets Rocks!” (it most certainly does not). I waited for a while longer and nothing else showed up while I played with my dogs for almost 30 minutes. I had them running around, barking, jumping… no tweets though. I went back to the program and checked the status: It said everything was good. Why no tweets then? Well, you can set it at three different frequency settings, and I had it on medium, so now I bumped it up to high frequency. Immediately, three more tweets came by: “In typical fashion, the cat down the street is registered as an Independent. They can’t ever commit to anything.”, “Why? Because I can.”, and “I’ve got a new leash on life!”… then silence. I let the dogs play with it on their collars for a while (even though they obviously hated it), and absolutely no tweets went by for 2 hours, even though I had it on the high frequency setting. There was so much activity, running, barking…. why wouldn’t this device tweet about any of it? I thought maybe it was disconnected, but the status still said everything was fine.
I decided to give it a little more time and just let the dogs keep it on for a little while longer… over the course of 5 hours, three more tweets came through on the high frequency setting: “I
Review by Christopher Butler for Puppy Tweets Blue
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I loved the idea of this thing. But there are tons of problems.
First off, the thing is big. It drove our 20 pound dogs crazy.
Secondly, getting it to connect to our computer and stay connected was a pain.
Third, the tweets were really dumb. They didn’t seem to have much to do with what the dog was doing. A lot of bad puns. Plus, I’m pretty sure it tweeted once when a dog didn’t even have the collar on.
We sent them back the same day we got them, I really can’t recommend these at all.
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This product does not live up to any vague hints Mattel’s product description makes. The tweets are clearly just cliches like “L’il help! Nose stuck in bird feeder!” and “I chase parked cars, you use wrinkle cream. I think that makes us even.” (We don’t own a bird feeder and our dog does not chase cars.) Then there was “Come home soon – my tummy is open for scratching” that was sent out at around 3 am in the morning. A computer programmer could easily write the same script for Twitter, and the automated tweets would not require the USB or collar device. I doubt these items have any working purpose at all, aside from making this look like a legit product. Please don’t waste your money.
Review by Michelle Parkinson for Puppy Tweets Blue
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*****Update*****
I thought I should add the fact that, though the collar attachment and USB dongle have been sitting in a drawer no where near a computer for over a week now, my pup is still actively tweeting the same set of messages with some amount of regularity. I’m pretty sure he isn’t doing it himself, so take that for what it’s worth.
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Just received my Puppy Tweets last night. Set up was relatively simple, though to make the connection between the antenna and the device, I needed to restart my computer. This wasn’t in the directions and might cause a little frustration.
The device itself is pretty large on our 16-lb miniature pinscher mix, and while our other dog was giving him the stinkeye for a couple hours, it didn’t seem to bother him to have it on.
As far as the actual tweets go, you can read them on Twitter @KeebsKeebs. There doesn’t seem to be much correlation between what he’s actually doing – like running, eating, barking, or napping – and what the tweets are. I think something – noise or movement – triggers the device and then the tweet is randomly selected from the 500 available. With frequent tweeting and a limited catalog, I’m already getting repeats in less than 24 hours, so I imagine the novelty might wear off pretty quickly. However, it’s fun and cute and it’s amusing me for now. 🙂