The world has come a long way since 1993, when the New Yorker published Peter Steiner’s cartoon of two canines above the caption: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” making us laugh at the absurd notion of household pets on the World Wide Web. Now, a dozen years later, your dog — or cat or hedgehog or pot-bellied pig — is a nobody unless it’s got an Instagram account, Twitter feed, Facebook page, or all three. Here’s a look at some of the animal kingdom’s current social media standouts.
Twitter’s most-followed feline is Sockamillion, a gray-and-white domestic shorthair from Waltham, Mass., whose Sockington Twitter feed has 1.34 million followers. Other famous felines include Grumpy Cat (288,000 followers) and the totally adorable Lil Bub (56,400).
When it comes to canines, Twitter’s top dog is a 12-year-old Shih Tzu named Marnie with 99,300 followers, but Kermit the dog (owned by YouTube personality Jenna Marbles) is a chew toy’s toss away at 98,100.
On Facebook, it’s Grumpy Cat that rules the kitty-cat club, with an official page clocking in at 7.62 million “likes” – or about 846, 667 for each of her nine lives.
