A rather convoluted website called Botanicalls tells you how to wire your leafy pals into the micro-blogging site Twitter. If I’m honest, at times the set-up is thoroughly unfathomable to my non-circuit board savvy mind.

However, once plugged in, the little green fellows will send you updates on their moisture levels, informing you on their status, whether they are saturated, drying out or just right. Basically Twitter is giving us the opportunity to prolong organic life!