The missing Egyptian cobra doesn’t hiss, it tweets. A lot.
The spoof Twitter account offering wit and wisdom about how the Bronx Zoo snake has been spending her time on the lam has amassed more than 157,000 followers as of last night.
“Getting on the ferry to Ellis Island. Let’s hope this goes better than that time on the plane,” reads an update posted yesterday morning by @BronxZoosCobra.
The Twitter account, which first surfaced Sunday, has grown enormously each day since — around 40,000 new followers every 24 hours.
Also jumping on the cobra bandwagon are entrepreneurs looking to sink their fangs into a piece of the action — hawking snake-themed T-shirts, mugs and even baby clothes online through Web sites like Cafepress and eBay.
Among those following @BronxZoosCobra, are celebrities, including Ellen DeGeneres and Mayor Bloomberg.
DeGeneres suggested the cobra visit the Guggenheim Museum.
“They have a great [Wassily] Kandinsky exhibit,” she wrote in a Twitter post addressed to the roving reptile. “They also don’t have any stairs.”
The real missing cobra is believed to still be somewhere inside the zoo’s now-closed World of Reptiles exhibit.