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This Is Getting Ridiculous: Cat Amasses Half A Million Twitter Followers In 3 Months
TechCrunch —
Ok, I dig Twitter and I understand why celebrities - who continue to flock to the service as if their careers and social status depend on it - manage to attract massive amounts of users following their every 140-character move, but this is getting plain ludicrous. Meet @Sockington, a cat on Twitter that has succeeded in surpassing the 500,000 follower mark some time yesterday.
Tweeting eye-opening messages such as “and so I slept and then I walked around and then I slept again and then I saw a cobweb and OH FINE YES IT IS A SLOW NEWS DAY” in addition to “HOORAY THE ATTIC IS OPEN awesome view from attic ...
The cat with more than 500,000 Twitter followers
Technically Incorrect —
Rudy the Parrot hates him.
Last week, Rudy tweeted: "They can try but they will never get to me. Birds live twice as long as cats, sometimes longer. @Sockington will perish."
I am sure that is true. However, whereas in January Sockington had 10,000 Twitter followers, now there are more than 500,000. Rudy is stuck on 1,573.
Sockington is, as you have probably guessed, a cat. One extremely popular cat.
He is the cat that belongs to Jason Scott, a man with remarkable sideburns who is the brains behind, amongst other things, Textfiles.com.
Sockington's home ...
Cat Got Your Tongue: How Gossip Will Become The New Media
Between the Lines —
May 19th, 2009 Cat Got Your Tongue: How Gossip Will Become The New Media Posted by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld @ 7:21 am Categories: Advertising , Blogging , Business Intelligence , Communications , Digital Media , Facebook , General , Google , Media , Microblogging , MySpace Tags: Media , Social Media , Conference , Tom Steinert-Threlkeld If you believe the profile, there is a cat that twitters. And has 512,733 followers, as of mid-afternoon May 18. Of course, this cat – alternately known as “Sockamillion” or “ Sockington ” – and his voice ...
