Ever wondered what it would be like if your dog had a Twitter account? Well, Mattel is here to answer that question for you … kind of.

The Mattel toy company has announced a new product called Puppy Tweets that will send a randomly selected message from 500 preset ones to a Twitter account.  The dog wears a pendant on its collar that sends a signal to a USB receiver you plug into your computer, and whenever the dog moves or barks, a Tweet will be sent to the dog’s Twitter account.

While it sounds cute, its novelty will quickly wear off.  If your dog is scratching, you might get a Tweet about it chasing its tail.  If your dog is very active, you could quickly find a Twitter stream that is just flooded with messages of your dog being active.  Do you really need to know every time your dog moves a muscle?  Seeing as I have four dogs, imagine if I had one of these on each of them … ugh.  It would be a never ending stream of messages as one of them always seems to be active.

Perhaps it would amuse a child, but until the technology actually has some sort of connection to what it does for real, we’re going to suggest you pass.