This Chicken Chain Got an Actual Chicken to Write Its Tweets, and Look What She Posted

Deep thoughts from Betty

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If you read some recent tweets from Australian barbecue chain Chicken Treat, you might conclude that a strange bird is running its feed.

And you'd be right. Literally.

The franchise put a keyboard inside a henhouse and let a freaky fowl named Betty just have it. For more than a week, she's been using the hunt and peck method to broadcast on behalf of the brand, as part of an ad campaign that's generated ample publicity.

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