Sockington

Sockington (also known as "Sockamillion" or "Socks") is a domestic cat who lives in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has gained large-scale fame via the social networking site Twitter; his co-owner, Jason Scott, an archivist and Internet historian, has been regularly posting from Sockington's Twitter account since late 2007. As of May 2010, Sockington's account has over 1.5 million followers, many of which are pet accounts themselves.

Sockington is a grey and white domestic shorthaired cat; he was found as a stray outside a Boston subway station in 2004.

In July 2014, Parade magazine called Sockington a "Pet Power Player" and named him #1 in their list of pet social media sensations.

The posts, or "tweets", are written by Scott from the perspective of Sockington, typical posts run along the lines of:

stalk stalk stalk AND WHAT HAVE WE HERE deadly pillow enemy BANZAIIIIIIIII CRASH oh no busted PILLOW ATTACKED FIRST run run run

the posts are written a few at a time using a shell script and slowly fed into Twitter at short intervals

Between 2007 and January 2009, the Sockington account grew to 10,000 followers. In February 2009, the Sockington account was added to the "recommended feeds" list of Twitter, making it one of the accounts suggested to all new users who joined. This caused a rapid expansion of the account at the rate of between 500-5,000 new followers a day. By May 2009 the account had half a million followers, which led British newspaper The Independent to call him "Twitter's latest megastar". In July the number was over three-quarters of a million. In August 2009, that number surpassed 1 million. As of May 2010, Sockington has over 1.5 million watchers, making him the most popular nonhuman tweeter, being the 98th most popular Twitter feed.

Sockington has two feline companions whose Twitter voices are also provided by Jason Scott: the ginger Pennycat (aka Pennsylvania) whose posts tend to reflect ironically on Sockington and his fame, and the other, Tweetie, a rescue cat who looks enough like Sockington to be nicknamed his "Sockelganger" (a portmanteau of Sockington and doppelgänger). Tweetie's tale of rescue has effectively brought attention to the plight of feral cats and provided an opportunity for fund-raising for The Animal Center in Newtown, Connecticut (United States), the shelter that saved him. "Food Lady", the woman responsible for the cats' maintenance and welfare... not to mention kibble, also has a Twitter presence.

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