Last but not least: How Hänschen becomes a social networking specialist
What you don't learn as a child, you'll never learn as an adult—according to researchers at a Belgian university, this also seems to apply to social networking.
The researchers have developed the so-called "Twoddler" - an activity center from Fisher Price that has been turned into a Twitter machine using sensors and pictures of the child's relatives and friends so that Hans can practice tweeting as a baby. The baby's activities are registered by the sensors, which then activate the software. If a child plays with a picture of its mother for a certain period of time, for example, a predefined text such as "Hans misses his mother" is automatically published on the corresponding Twitter account. But don't worry, dear twitterers: for the time being, the Twoddler is a prototype that is not for sale - so there are no reports of your neighbor's crying offspring to worry about in the near future. And if the time does come: A few more nonsensical tweets probably won't matter.
