Socks Rocks!
Twitter’s latest Star
Is a Microblogging Cat
by Jake Coyle
May 21st, 2009
ABC NEWS
He’s one of the most
popular users on Twitter.
More than 500,000 follow
his growing celebrity,
his every adventure and,
well, his cat naps.
Meet Sockington.
Twitter’s latest star
is a microblogging cat
who regales more than
half a million with his
musings on meal time,
personal hygiene and
the view from the top
of the stairs.
Sockington,
or “Socks” for short,
is the cat of Jason Scott,
a 38-year-old computer
historian and computer
administrator from
Waltham, Mass.
Since late 2007, Scott has
been tweeting from Sockington’s
perspective —
and finding a “Socks Army”
of followers.
(Many of his followers are pets,
too.)
Dogs and cats in social
media isn’t anything new.
Many have made Facebook pages
(there are applications for both
“Dogbook” and “Catbook”)
and Web sites for their pets.
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