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.”

Let me start by saying that I have nothing against celebrities or people who like celebrities. They’re entertaining (at times) and I think some of them are good people.

The recent avalanche of celebrities into Twitter has generated an incredible amount of mass media attention, which undoubtedly resulted in a huge influx of new users. A lot of them signed up just to follow their favorite celebrities, which is good for Twitter in a way.

We all know that Twitter is now a mainstream phenomenon like Facebook, especially after it was promoted by Oprah yesterday. Twitter was already growing rapidly but Oprah is pretty much the most powerful form of mainstream validation you can get.