Teenager’s tweets from confiscated phone via smart fridge go viral

As a teenager, there are few things more frustrating than getting your phone confiscated.

Suddenly your pathway to communicating with the world is blocked and you have no way to entertain yourself aside from, say, reading a book.

For one 15-year-old, the thought of no screen time was too much to bear. So she decided to take action in the most resourceful of ways: to tweet using her smart fridge.

On Thursday, the Ariana Grande fan, who goes by the name “Dorothy” on Twitter, used her family’s smart refrigerator to send a message to her followers via voice control.

“I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again.”
“I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my Mom confiscated all of my electronics again.”
The tweet soon went viral, garnering 67,200 likes and earning Dorothy more than 28,000 followers.

Speaking to The Guardian, the teen revealed her mother confiscated her phone two weeks ago because she got distracted while she was cooking and started a fire in her kitchen.

“She took all my tech so I’d pay more attention to my surroundings,” Dorothy told the publication via her cousin’s iPad because her mother has not yet returned her devices to her.

“I felt mortified!” the teen continued. “I was worried because I’ve been bored all summer and Twitter passes the time for me.”