It was a pleasant surprise to find that the Associated Press did a profile on Sockington, a Twitter account for a cat. And not just any cat. A cat with over 500,000 followers. A cat that has funny tweets. Sockington is the cat of Jason Scott, who does all the tweeting for him as well.

Scott has created a character with a particular voice by tweeting messages from Sockington’s point of view like: “I must say no comment to the whole dining room incident. No questions please.”

Have too much time on your hands? Maybe you would want to integrate Twitter with a physical object in your environment. It’s not difficult to do as long as you have the right equipment. That’s what someone did when they decided to set up a Twitter account for an office chair and set it so that it tweets when the sitter farts:

The Twittering office chair “tweets” (posts a Twitter update) upon the detection of natural gas such as that produced by human flatulence. This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens.

You should probably have heard of Twitterholic, a site which is known for ranking the top 1000 according to the number of followers. I was visiting the site just a few hours ago and noticed that there was a section which listed the rank of Twitter users according to their join dates, in other words… this was a list which ranked users according to how early they joined Twitter.

Interesting to see how the early users were the ones who snapped up most of the common first names as profile names. Anyway, just some interesting trivia I thought I’ll share. See the full list here. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll find a link to view users up to the 1000th rank.

Drew Olanoff will tattoo your Twitter username on his left forename if you’re willing to make a bid for it. But it’s for a good cause, all the proceeds go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. This reminds me of the GoldenPlace.com stunt where people were paid to tattoo their body in order to promote the site but this one has a charity twist, it ain’t all about profits and business.

Update: Turns out this was an imposter. The Dalai Lama is not on Twitter. The fake account has been suspended and removed.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama has started a twitter account 19 hours ago… but its not really him tweeting. It’s an official account administered by his office in order to communicate with the public. It appears to be actively interacting with people who talk to it… a healthy number of @replies are always good. Right now, there are 25 updates and 8000 followers, the account is also following 2000 other users. Cool.