Twitter Carbon Footprint...Tweetprint?

As an active Twitterer, this calculation of the GHG emissions of Twitter's activities is half hilarious and half sad.

Based on their averages, I did my own math and came to 13 grams of CO2e per tweet, which puts the total Tweetprint (TM) (kidding) of my own Twitter habit at well over 35 kg. That represents about 9 months of serious use.

Let's put that in perspective.

According to the US EPA GHG Equivalencies Calculator, 35 kg is approximately the CO2e emissions from 4 gallons of gasoline consumed or 1.5 propane cylinders used for home barbeques, or the carbon sequestered by 0.9 tree seedlings grown for 10 years.

So, putting the debate about forestry offsets aside for a moment, could a heavy-ish Twitter user like me just plant a tree or two per year, assuming they'll survive for at least 10 years, and call it a Tweet?

Perhaps we should instead lobby Twitter to move their servers to Iceland to reduce their emissions thanks to natural cooling and a carbon-free electricity grid...