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Who’s the latest participant in today’s social media?

Answer: babies (and the queen of England)

One graduate student’s research project puts social media into the hands of babies with a cloud-connected toy mobile. Dangling Twitter and Facebook icons film the nearby baby and post videos to the social media platforms. A pair of shoes track the baby’s kicks and post activity charts online, while a squeezable GPS tracker logs the baby’s location, and a selfie-ball photographs and uploads photos of the baby whenever the ball is rotated.

Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth II issued her first tweet to announce the opening of the Information Age exhibition at the Science Museum in Kensington, London.