Telling the world about his meal times and his view from the top of the stairs, Sockington is the newest star on social networking site Twitter. And he's a cat!

Sockington, or "Socks" for short, is the cat of Jason Scott, a 38-year-old computer historian and computer administrator from Waltham, Massachussetts. Since late 2007, Scott has been tweeting from Sockington's perspective — and finding a "Socks Army" of followers.

The running thread of Sockington's feline commentary takes on the dimension of a comic strip. 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."

"He's kind of functioning like a 'Garfield' comic," says Scott. "He's like the 21st century Garfield."

Scott's Sockington feed has benefited from being one of the accounts recommended to new Twitter users when they sign up. But the growth of the Socks Army has been gradual over the last year and a half.

T-shirts are for sale with Sockington wisdom printed on them and Scott acknowledges he may one day accept larger, impossible-to-refuse offers.

"I'm happy that at the heart of it all is a funny little cat, and that's why all the attention is happening," says Scott. "There are much worse reasons to get this kind of national attention."

You can follow Sockington's adventures on Twitter and also follow the Your Cat Twitter feed.