Plain and simple, yes. Your device (mobile phone, laptop) and the servers used to process your tweet all require energy. That energy is quantifiable. [1]
Quick Fact
The average American has a 28 ton annual carbon footprint.[A] Spam email surpasses the average American's C02e waste every 32 seconds. [B]
A. Mike Berners-Lee. How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
. Greystone Books. 2011.
B. Victoria Woollaston, "Revealed, What happens in just one minute on the Internet," Mail Online. July 30, 2013, last accessed August 14, 2014.
. Greystone Books. 2011.B. Victoria Woollaston, "Revealed, What happens in just one minute on the Internet," Mail Online. July 30, 2013, last accessed August 14, 2014.
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1. Dave Bellona. Weighing the Cloud. ISSUU, 2012.
