I Tawt I Taw a Twitter Tat!

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on May 17, 2009

Remember how we watched in awe as Ashton Kutcher beat CNN to a million Twitter followers?  All right, maybe awe is too strong a word, but according to the Baltimore Sun, a cat named Sockington is catching up, quietly racking up half that million, and gaining every day.   What’s the matter, Ashton?  Cat Kutcher tongue?

I must leek ze feengers zat tweetz for meeeeeeee!

Photo: Jason “Textfiles” Scott

{ 42 comments }

1 dylanimore 05.17.09 at 6:08 am

Aww. What a sweetie pie.

2 Zorbs 05.17.09 at 6:21 am

Sockington’s tweets are hilarious!

3 sas 05.17.09 at 6:21 am

He got one more follower. :) I, for one, support our new feline overlord.

4 thicktortiethintabby 05.17.09 at 6:23 am

Where have I been that I didn’t know about Sockington?!?!

5 thicktortiethintabby 05.17.09 at 6:30 am

:: adds Sockington’s feed to homepage ::

6 Des 05.17.09 at 7:03 am

I also follow Sockington. He’s fun.

7 Christine 05.17.09 at 7:03 am

Seriously. Jason Scott is going to take over the world!

8 claudia 05.17.09 at 7:37 am

lol, cute, I laughed at “slow news day”

9 Jae 05.17.09 at 7:53 am

Just don’t forget to follow @pennycat (Socks’ oft-neglected, more intellectual, sometimes abusive sister) too. I sometimes think of Winston and Rudy when I read Penny’s tweets.

10 donna 05.17.09 at 7:54 am

On the Internet, even cats are more popular than you.

Or plants.

http://www.woodka.com/2009/04/08/on-twitter-no-one-knows-youre-a-plant/

11 Katrina 05.17.09 at 8:33 am

Don’t tweet. Don’t twy.

12 thelibrarianne 05.17.09 at 8:37 am

I totally follow Sockington! Rainn Wilson has a personal vendetta against Sockington’s popularity, which makes for some very funny Tweet battles.

Can’t believe I just wrote that sentence.

13 dawgpup 05.17.09 at 8:40 am

go kitty!!!! :D

14 essensual 05.17.09 at 9:27 am

What a handsome cat!!! I’m in love.

15 T.U.M. 05.17.09 at 10:21 am

Charlene Butterbean of the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee is also on Twitter. The Internet lubs kittehs.

16 DJ 05.17.09 at 10:23 am

I just joined twitter for the sole purpose of following Sockington.

17 lucy's mommeh 05.17.09 at 10:31 am

gods, I’m sorry. I refuse to tweet.
Facebook? Yeah, I’m there.
But tweeting? Nuh-uh.

18 kibblenibble 05.17.09 at 10:38 am

Lucy’s mommeh, I’m with you. However, I must say Sir Sockington *is* quite a handsome fellow!

19 Theresa 05.17.09 at 10:43 am

One of my favorite Twitters is Barry Zito’s (pitcher, SF Giants). It’s hysterical.

20 Trin 05.17.09 at 10:52 am

my kitties have more followers than I do… seriously…

21 kibblenibble 05.17.09 at 11:01 am

Cat Kutcher tongue…LOL :-)

22 nismo 05.17.09 at 11:09 am

Perfect chin-scritching posishe.

23 Theresa 05.17.09 at 11:15 am

PS Also check out Sockington’s nemesis, Rudy the Parrot:
http://twitter.com/RudyTheParrot

24 @AustinAaron 05.17.09 at 11:42 am

I didn’t know that many people liked cats.

25 Deckard Canine 05.17.09 at 12:12 pm

We’re not watching this in awe, but in awwww.

26 ratchic 05.17.09 at 1:49 pm

Do we know if Ashton will see this? Does Mr “cat Kutcher tongue” visit C.O? Mebe thumwun thud twitter him the linkth?

27 lucy's mommeh 05.17.09 at 2:21 pm

kibblenibble, yesh, hims is a veddy handsome puddy tat.

28 P.Erasmus 05.17.09 at 2:35 pm

29 Elena 05.17.09 at 4:05 pm

Sockington rocks. I’m totally following him now.

30 Teresa 05.17.09 at 4:32 pm

AWW :) Sockington is a very handsome kitty :)

31 CUTE 'N' FUNNY@ 05.17.09 at 4:51 pm

Awwwwwwwwww what a cute kitty cat!!

32 kimmy 05.17.09 at 7:05 pm

following!!!

33 edmundh 05.17.09 at 7:08 pm

“Sockington” ??? Why can’t I think of cute cat names like that??

* checks kitteh’s twitter page *

“All your tuna are belong to us” ??? LOL!

34 puddlepeppers 05.17.09 at 8:30 pm

Sockington rules! I drools…
Puddles

35 eternalcanadian 05.17.09 at 10:37 pm

lol. follows sockington.

36 hon glad 05.17.09 at 11:30 pm

I think i’ll pass on twitter, I don’t want to get bitter and twittered.

37 Subhangi 05.17.09 at 11:58 pm

Of course kittehs are on twitter. ALL evil overlords are on Twitter!

(Including yours truly. Unfortunately my evil overlord plans are secret.)

38 Anna von Beaverplatz 05.18.09 at 5:45 am

I follow Sockington. And Pennycat. I do not follow Ashton Kutcher.

(I secretly think Sockington is smarter)

39 Tractatus Blorpico-Philosophicus 05.18.09 at 5:47 am

@Theresa, thx for the Rudy the Parrot link! I love eet! It’s 1,000,000 X better than Sockington! . . . Just like how Winston-san is 1,000,000 X better than Winston!

Does Zito say anything interesting? I’m curious, but kind of can’t be bothered to look . . .

40 thicktortiethintabby 05.18.09 at 6:30 am

@lucy’s mommeh and @hon glad, I am not a fan of the “social networking” sites, either. (I’m 34, not 64, believe it or not.) I put Sockington’s feed on my browser homepage via RSS. It’s the ONLY twitter I’ve followed so far…I have a soft spot for tuxedo kittehs.

41 berthaservant 05.18.09 at 1:14 pm

OKAY, WAIT JUST A DARN SECOND!!!!

I am not on twitter, so I have no comment about that.

BUT THIS DUDE STOLE MY NAME. (Yes, my real name is Jason Scott).

I mean, it’s hard enough having a name that is two first names (and two of the most popular American boys’ names in the 1970s to boot). BUT I AIN’T GONNA CONCEDE ANY OF MY CUTE OVERLOAD STATUS TO ANOTHER DUDE WITH A CAT!

Seriously, peeps, ‘dentity crisis….

(Oh, and if you think it’s not gonna get worse, check this out…..http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475968/).

42 Chee 05.19.09 at 7:48 pm

Sockington is the second person, er, cat I followed on Twitter!

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