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?
Photo: Jason “Textfiles” Scott
Aww. What a sweetie pie.
Sockington’s tweets are hilarious!
He got one more follower.
I, for one, support our new feline overlord.
Where have I been that I didn’t know about Sockington?!?!
:: adds Sockington’s feed to homepage ::
I also follow Sockington. He’s fun.
Seriously. Jason Scott is going to take over the world!
lol, cute, I laughed at “slow news day”
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.
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/
Don’t tweet. Don’t twy.
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.
go kitty!!!!
What a handsome cat!!! I’m in love.
Charlene Butterbean of the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee is also on Twitter. The Internet lubs kittehs.
I just joined twitter for the sole purpose of following Sockington.
gods, I’m sorry. I refuse to tweet.
Facebook? Yeah, I’m there.
But tweeting? Nuh-uh.
Lucy’s mommeh, I’m with you. However, I must say Sir Sockington *is* quite a handsome fellow!
One of my favorite Twitters is Barry Zito’s (pitcher, SF Giants). It’s hysterical.
my kitties have more followers than I do… seriously…
Cat Kutcher tongue…LOL
Perfect chin-scritching posishe.
PS Also check out Sockington’s nemesis, Rudy the Parrot:
http://twitter.com/RudyTheParrot
I didn’t know that many people liked cats.
We’re not watching this in awe, but in awwww.
Do we know if Ashton will see this? Does Mr “cat Kutcher tongue” visit C.O? Mebe thumwun thud twitter him the linkth?
kibblenibble, yesh, hims is a veddy handsome puddy tat.
Sockington rocks. I’m totally following him now.
AWW
Sockington is a very handsome kitty 
Awwwwwwwwww what a cute kitty cat!!
following!!!
“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!
Sockington rules! I drools…
Puddles
lol. follows sockington.
I think i’ll pass on twitter, I don’t want to get bitter and twittered.
Of course kittehs are on twitter. ALL evil overlords are on Twitter!
(Including yours truly. Unfortunately my evil overlord plans are secret.)
I follow Sockington. And Pennycat. I do not follow Ashton Kutcher.
(I secretly think Sockington is smarter)
@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 . . .
@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.
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/).
Sockington is the second person, er, cat I followed on Twitter!