Every time you send out 140 characters over the social application Twitter, how much energy does that consume? According to some back of the napkin calculations from Raffi Krikorian, a developer for Twitter’s Platform Team, each tweet sent consumes about 90 joules. That means each tweet emits about 0.02 grams of C02 into the atmosphere.
So the roughly 50 million tweets sent on average per day delivers the equivalent of 1 metric ton of CO2. (1 metric ton of CO2 looks kinda like this).
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