Chicken takes over Twitter account for fast-food chain

AN AUSTRALIAN fast-food company has given control of its Twitter account to a chicken for the past week and the results are magnificent.

This Australian company is clucking mad

AN AUSTRALIAN fast-food chicken company has a fowl running its Twitter account.

Betty the chicken has taken control of the Chicken Treat’s Twitter account for the last week.

Betty forms the tweets, mostly nonsensical words and characters, as she pecks at or walks over the keyboard.

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— Chicken Treat (@ChickenTreat) October 16, 2015

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.

On Thursday, she typed “bum” — which was close but didn’t win her the title.

"Bum"? Keep things clean, Betty. pic.twitter.com/qwLAwmQwKr

— Chicken Treat (@ChickenTreat) October 15, 2015

No word yet if Betty is going to wind up in the fryer, but she and the stunt have helped grow the company’s Twitter account to almost 8,000 followers.

If you’re thinking what animal rights activists are thinking about all this, the company told CNN that the stunt has “been approved by (the Australian Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) & abides by all standards regarding animal welfare.”

Watch Betty - the first tweeting chicken's training video. https://t.co/9cqiFvFmQN #chickentweet

— Chicken Treat (@ChickenTreat) October 15, 2015