Twitter Cats

Categories: Animals | Internet Zeitgeist
    • Twitter allows users to send short status updates to their friends
    • Users have started impersonating their cats on Twitter
    • One such user is Mary Hodder, a web 2.0 entrepreneur
    • Sockington, a popular twitter cat, is 'owned' by Jason ScottTwitter: Sockington
    • Lucy_Cat had nearly 400 followers in January 2009Twitter: Lucy_Cat
    • Twitter Cat competition: In 2008, the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam featured streaming video of Shiba Inu puppiesNew York Times: The Age of Tweety Cats (November 6, 2008)
    • Facebook once tried to ban 'nonhuman members,' like puppies and catsNew York Times: The Age of Tweety Cats (November 6, 2008)
  • The micro-blogging site Twitter allows users to send short “tweets”—140 character status updates—to all of their contacts. A growing phenomenon on Twitter is for cat owners to send these messages actually impersonating their cat, as if the animal were the one typing the message. One such cat, Sockington, has grown quite popular on the site and has over 14,200 followers as of January 30, 2009.Twitter: SockingtonNew York Times: The Age of Tweety Cats (November 6, 2008)
  • Famous Twitter cats

    1. SockingtonTwitter: Sockington
    2. CalibanTheCatTwitter: CalibanTheCat
    3. MimiTheCatTwitter: MimiTheCat
    4. PantherthecatTwitter: Pantherthecat
    5. arielthecatTwitter: arielthecat
  • Twitter Cat Owners

    A noteworthy Twitter-cat owner is Mary Hodder, founder of the video site Dabble.com, a video search engine.Personal Democracy Forum: Mary Hodder Profile Mary also blogs at Napsterization.org, a site devoted to exploring the many uses of digital media, and mainly its "napsterization."napsterization.org: Napsterization.org About Us Mary is the owner of CalibanTheCat, MimiTheCat, Pantherthecat and arielthecat.
  • Selected Sockington Tweets

    1. crouched on carpet, awaiting the chance to pounce on whatever's prey today OH GOD YOUR SUDDEN PETTING RUINED MY ATTACK STANCE oh well purrrTwitter: Sockington Status Update 8:20 AM, November 10, 2008
    2. WHY DOES NOBODY BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I DIED OF STARVATION AND NEED FOODTwitter: Sockington Status Update 12:12 AM, November 9, 2008

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