David Bowen Gives Houseflies An Internet Persona With "Fly Tweet" Installation (VIDEO)

This Is What Happens When Houseflies Tweet...

If you thought Raymond Pettibon's tweets were weird and hard to parse, wait until you read @Flycolony's inscrutable stream.

The uncanny feed is part of an art installation by David Bowen, who has created a nifty "Fly Tweet" device for a colony of houseflies to better express themselves online. The American artist has also created kinetic inventions including a wind drawing device and a fly blimp.

"Fly Tweet" consists of a transparent sphere, inside which flies hover around a keyboard and occasionally bump into characters. After 140 of these bumps, a tweet is released in real time. So, what clever quips do flies have to share about their daily lives? One recent tweet reads:

@Flycolony already has well over 3,500 Twitter followers. Kim Kardashian better watch her back!

Check out our favorite art-savvy, albeit human, Twitter accounts in the slideshow below:

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