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Sockington

Sockington

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About

Sockington is the name of a domestic cat who gained much online notoriety through a Twitter feed maintained by owner and TextFiles creator Jason Scott.

Origin

In March 2007, the @sockington Twitter feed was launched, featuring photographs of Sockington and tweets written from the cat's perspective. Over the next eight years, the feed gathered upwards of 1.33 million followers.


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On December 29th, 2008, a Facebook[5] page for Sockington was created, gaining more than 360,000 likes in the following seven years.

On January 28th, 2009, the Rocketboom YouTube[1] channel uploaded an interview with Jason Scott about Sockington's online fame. In February, the @sockington Twitter feed was added to Twitter's "recommend feeds" list. By May 2010, the @sockington account was the 98th most popular Twitter feed.[4] On May 17th, People magazine published an article on Sockington (shown below).


OCKINGTO Sockiv page logo FOLLOW THAT CAT twitter @SOCKINGTON: YES When Sockington (with help from his owner) tweets, more than 1.5 million people tune in THAT IS RIGHT PEOPLE MAGAZINE IS HERE FOR A PHOTO SHOOTplease get one of my good side WHO AM I KIDDING ALL SIDES ARE GOOD HERE 7:37 AM Mar 29h PRIL5 @sockington:"Unsure "Socks has an extremely strongper "Sockington, I gotyour back"). But so which is better windowsill sonality," says Scott, 39, whom Sock- far Scott has resisted turning his cat or couch Obviously a sleep ington calls "Fatty" online. An early into a cashcow. "We've been contacted test is in order Be backsoon... Twitter adopter who began his cat's by agents. But I'd rather people say, page in 2007, Scott found "it wasn't Remember Sockington the cat? Rath People often wonder what pets are hard to make Sockington's real life er than: 'Remember Sockington? He thinking. No more: Sockington, a into stories." What he didn't expect is was reallygood until that book.'" Sock- 6-year-old former stray from how many people would read them. ington too has stayed true to himself, Waltham, Mass., helpfully records his Yet as of mid-April, Sockington has despite his fame. Proof: FEB 26 @sockington: This sudden burst ofmedia attention is nice and all but let usfo- cus on the issues folks For exampleIstill lackoa largely unpunctuated) musings on 1.5 million followers-nearly Twitter. And what's on an average three times as many as Tom house cat's mind? Mostly what you'd Cruise!-making him the expect: eating, napping and feeling most-read pet on the site. superior to his human companion-in Fans have written love this case Jason Scott, a historian, to letters, started a club whom Sockington has outsourced the (Socks Army) and com tedium of actually typing. bed made of salmon. posed tribute songs ON SCOTT By Sharon Cotliar FOR MORE PET NEWS AND PICTURES, VISIT PEOPLEPETS COM 152 May 17,2010 PEOPLE Photographs by RAY LEGO

On June 2nd, Jason Scott uploaded a montage of video clips and photos of Sockington to YouTube (shown below). On June 22nd, The Daily Beast[6] published an article about the Sockington Twitter feed tittled "Twitter's Cat Mega Star." On October 22nd, 2011, The Independent[3] published an article about Sockington titled "Twitter's latest megastar is a cat."



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[1] YouTube – Sockington the Cat

[2] Twitter – @sockington

[3] The Independent – Twitters latest megastar is a cat

[4] Wikipedia – Sockington

[5] Facebook – Sockington

[6] The Daily Beast – Twitters Cat Mega Star

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Seriously, posting cat pictures need to be its own business category. People have made millions of dollars posting their own cats, or posting other people's cats online.

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