@TheOrangeCone loves it when followers interact with him online. The Orange Cone was originally a MySpace account but came to Twitter after its creator discovered the witty tweets of Bronx Zoo's Cobra, last year's famously escaped snake, and motorsports satirist @nascarcasm. Today the Orange Cone keeps a following of more than 20,000 users up to date on NASCAR happenings. And his followers respond in droves. People notice cones in their everyday life and send pictures to me by the hundreds, said the man behind the Cone, who asked that his name not be used. I find that hilarious -- people stopping what they are doing in the real world to take a picture of an orange cone. I love it. He added, Whenever the cone is hit during the course of a NASCAR race, my feed blows up. When driver Kasey Kahne hit the cone during a February practice in Daytona, the Twitterverse came to Orange Cone's aid. Kasey made a Twitter apology and I added about 1,200 followers in the next hour, he said. It was insane. Staying in character For some, the prospect of interacting for real with followers is off the table. I am a bit like Banksy. Nobody knows who I am, said the man behind the foul-tempered @PigeonJon bird character, referring to the anonymous Britain-based artist. If possible, I 'd like to keep it this way ? he wrote in an e-mail to CNN. Apart from that statement, Jon never broke