Twitter Used to Determine Whether or Not Talking to A Plant Helps it Grow

Carmichael Lynch has created an interesting tweet-to-grow social media campaign for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to support MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition. The initiative, called Talk to a Plant, invites everyone on Twitter to help test the myth that talking to a plant helps it grow stronger and healthier.

Here's how it works: People can go to talktoaplant.com and send the plant a message. It doesn't matter what you tweet. A custom tweet-to-speech technology, developed by the agency using an Arduino-based device, will then read the tweet aloud to one of the plants. The other plant, as a control, sits in silence.

The plants run on 12-hour light cycles and are watered by an in-house lab technician. People can watch a 24/7 live stream over the next couple of months to see if the myth might just be busted.