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As reported by the Huffington Post...

 

This is Betty -- a chicken with more Twitter followers than you.

 

Chicken Treat, an Australian fast food chicken chain, has put the bird to work for it's new ad campaign. Betty is assigned a life of professional tweeting until she can produce a five-letter English word.

 

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Science says if you give a monkey a typewriter and an infinite amount of time, eventually it'll spit out some Shakespeare.

 

It is, not surprisingly, a marketing stunt. The company will continue this exercise until Betty successfully tweets a five-letter word in English, which will apparently earn her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. She seems to be making progress — on Thursday, she typed “bum.” Dark irony undercuts the humor here, of course. Betty is unwittingly working to promote a firm that exists only to execute and barbecue her brethren for human consumption.

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Corey Bearak

I'll take mine with lil' feat on The MIdnight Special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwfBsHbVtM4
Rona Gura

So Mitch, as a marketing expert what is your opinion of this?? My understanding is that, for marketing purposes any publicity is good publicity? Since its happening in Australia and we're talking about it all the way over here, I guess that means it's successful?

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