Rise of Twitter Pets

Have you ever had one of those conversations that blows your mind?

Like a life changing kind of thing that takes everything in your head and reassembles it in a new way?

That’s the kind of conversation this was. I don’t remember what the hell else we were talking about, maybe something about my new Twitter account and not being sure about what I was doing. But that’s irrelevant.

The only thing that matters is when she said, “My cat has 500 followers on Twitter.”

What? “Your cat has a Twitter account?”

“Yeah I just post meow or purr once in a while and upload a few pics here and there…”

Then I found out that as many as 1 in 10 pets has a Twitter account.

My mind is officially blown.

Sockington the cat, the most used Twitter pet example, has 1.5 million followers.

1.5 million people are interested in knowing what this cat is up to.

Move over Pinky and the Brain.

Of course humans have to do the actual tweeting, or anipals as they are called for those of you who don’t newspeak. But they love it.

Using their cat’s, dog’s or fishes voice on Twitter these anipals are raising money for a host of charities.

And we’re not talking chump change here.

This is big bucks on a regular basis to help animal shelters and other pet friendly orginizations.

We all knew that YouTube was owned by pet videos and cute babies.

Now it turns out the pets have taken Twitter as well.