Get Ready to be Punk’d Utah
Stay N' Alive — ... With Matt Marshall in the crowd, he will probably be the most familiar with early-adopter technologies and the audience of this blog since that is what they cover, so it will be interesting to see how he and his partner, Shira Lazar, will do in the contest. Ashton Kutcher, via his Twitter account, is asking for suggestions on what you would like the contestants to do, so hopefully Utah can represent. Regardless of what happens, I fully expect the entire contest to be one big punk on Utah tomorrow so beware of what you see as these bloggers fight to do anything to win this ...

Demi Moore Is Feeling the Twitter Love
GeekSugar — ... hours, Senator John McCain started tweeting to his heart's content and now Demi Moore has jumped on the Twitter-train as well. With the adorable mrskutcher username, Demi admits in a Tweet that her geeky profile pic is definitely her: "Ah yes I must admit the photo is really me. . .super geek material I am afraid. Better than when I wore a patch on top of the glasses!" Glad to see her partner-in-crime, Twitter user aplusk, has been showing her the Twitter ropes!

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore: first Twitter celeb couple
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... waited patiently inside. It may sound like a reality TV show in the vein of "The Osbournes." In fact, this is a real morning in the life of these Hollywood stars. And thanks to the immediacy of Twitter and Qik, the video streaming website on which Kutcher recently broadcasted his Sundance Internet game show, we, the audience, don't miss a moment of the show. Meet the Kutchers. The messages started pounding at a time when many of Ashton's 7,800 Twitter fans and Demi's 5,600 followers were going about their morning ...

Celebs on Twitter
Krunker — Not on Twitter? Thinking about joining the service but you’re not sure who’s actually on it? Well, here’s a small list of celebs you can follow on Twitter.. Yes.. you too can read what these folks are up to! If you know of a celeb that should be on this list, just lemme know! Enjoy! Shaq - http://twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ Ashton Kutcher - http://twitter.com/aplusk Kevin Rose - http://twitter.com/kevinrose Demi Moore - http://twitter.com/mrskutcher Lily Allen - ...

Twitterin' In the Rain
Gawker: valleywag — ... thinks God is washing Los Angeles because it is raining. Any in-the-know third grader could correctly inform him that rain means that God is, in fact, peeing on Los Angeles. ...

Twitterin' In the RainTwitterati Twitterati "We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To" "Shut Up, Twitter" Valleywag
Gawker: valleywag — ... thinks God is washing Los Angeles because it is raining. Any in-the-know third grader could correctly inform him that rain means that God is, in fact, peeing on Los Angeles. ...

Top 10 Celebrity Twitter Feeds
GadgetReview — ... to celebrities without having to dumpster dive for Keith Richards’ blood transfusion leftovers.  Here’s the top 10 Twitter celebrity feeds: 1. Britney Spears 2. Snoop Dog 3. Dalai Lama - Unverified 4. John Hodgman The PC Guy 5. Claire McCaskill 6. Lance Armstrong 7. Shaquille O’Neal 8. Arnold Schwarzenegger 9. David Lynch 10. Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore Follow GadgetReview! [ ...

How Ashton Kutcher wins at using New Media
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... been an Ashton Kutcher fan before, but now I’m hooked. Honest, raw feedback from a star in the spotlight is something we need more of. Sure, I don’t always agree with everything he says, but what I do agree with is that it’s clear that what we are seeing comes from him, not some publicist lead PR driven version of what he should be. Even if you don’t like him, credit him for being out there; he leads by example. You can follow Kutcher on Twitter here. ...

Twittering Celebrities Take Fans Backstage in Their Lives
Bits — Paparazzi, eat your hearts out: Celebrities are now taking their own candid photos of themselves and putting them on the Web. While watching the Academy Awards on TV Sunday night, Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and ...

Top Ten Twitter Songs of All Time
Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us — ... Twitter's short 3-year lifespan, the rapid-growing microblogging platform has spawned over 6 million followers who not only blog in 140 characters or less, but have also penned and performed songs in its honor. In addition to being a staple for rapid-fire communication amongst technophiles and a merchandising tool for tech-savvy companies, Twitter has inspired would-be songwriters to write music and pen lyrics about the obsession that has swept the nation. And while celebrities like Ashton Kutcher , ...

Bits: Twittering Celebrities Take Fans Backstage
NYT > Technology — UPDATED 2:00 p.m.: Corrected: Shaquille O’Neal is not retired, but currently plays for the Phoenix Suns. Paparazzi, eat your hearts out: Celebrities are now taking their own candid photos of themselves and putting them on the Web. While watching the Academy Awards on TV Sunday night, Hollywood couple Ashton Kutcher and ...

20 Celebs Who Really Shouldn't Have Beat You to Twitter
AppScout — ... Jimmy Fallon "My first Kindle 2 book download: Artie Lange Too Fat To Fish'" 17. Bob Vila "Quick tip - when shoveling snow, you can spray the shovel end with a lubricant, such as Pam cooking spray, to help snow slide off easier." 18. Solange Knowles "Feeling a sinus infection coming on. Damn, my momma shoulda breastfed me! Lol. I stay sick..and I'm terrible at vitamins. Smh." 19. Yoko Ono "Hey, yoke, yoki, yoyo, yoho!" 20. Ashton Kutcher "how much chest hair is too much?"'

Mayer-Aniston breakup: Blame Twitter?
Webware.com — ... friends of (Aniston) have told Star magazine that she finished the affair after discovering Mayer, 31, spent hours on the networking website, despite telling her he was too busy to get in touch with her," the Telegraph report alleged. Mayer has become an extremely avid user of the microblogging service (username is @johncmayer), along with fellow celebrities like basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, comedians Jimmy Fallon and John Hodgman, and actor Ashton Kutcher (who famously got his wife, actress Demi Moore, to join Twitter as ...

iFive: Amazon's Jeff Bezos Gets to Work, Austin Shares Smart Cars, and 50 Cent Isn't Twittering? in Today's Innovation News
Fast Company - Technology — ... robust sales for those devices mean that a portable computer and big, sleek TV are now necessities. In a related story, writer Kurt Andersen is holed up with his MacBook Pro and 52-inch HDTV plasma to avoid public mockery for his story on the End of Excess in today's Time magazine. [via Business Week's John Tozzi and Time] We all know by now that Twitter has captured the fancy of celebrity musicians (50 Cent, Diddy Combs), actors (Ashton Kutcher), and politicians (President Obama). The New York Times breaks today with ...

Britney Spears Passes Obama for Most Followed Human on Twitter
louisgray.com — ... ). While Spears joined Twitter relatively recently, only 6 months ago, to Obama's more than two years ago, the diva and those who help manage her online presence have shot to the top of the rankings, as Twitter has moved out of the geek sphere and into the mainstream. Not surprisingly, she and Obama are trailed by other "real world" celebrities like Ashton Kutcher (#4 overall), ...

Twitter, the Friendly Ghost
Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us — ... I tweeted CustomerCares. To my amazement, I was pleasantly surprised when Frank Eliason out of Philadelphia not only returned my tweets in a timely fashion, but actually was able to reset both of my TV sets remotely to solve the problem. Many Hollywood stars are opposed to the use of "ghost tweeters" as well. According to some celebrities, "ghost twittering" is disingenuous. So if you feel that the act of "ghost twittering" is making you lose your faith in humanity, perhaps one of Ashton Kutcher's recent tweets will provide you with a glimmer of hope that interaction is alive ...

Demi Moore Leads Twitter Suicide Intervention From Her iPhone
iPhone Savior — ... Ashton Kutcher praised his wife's efforts in a tweet sent out to his nearly 700,000 followers saying, "Wifey reported a suicide attempt based on a at reply tweet she got and saved someones life. the woman is in the hospital now." ...

Demi Moore's Twitter followers help stop a suicide
Technically Incorrect — Twitter is frivolous. Witness Ashton Kutcher, who tweeted a photo of his wife's bottom just the other day. However, that wife, Demi Moore, shifted her bottom Friday when perhaps another star might have turned the other cheek, in an act that showed Twitter has its serious uses too. On her own Twitter feed, Ms. Moore received a message from sandieguy, an apparently unemployed woman from the Silicon Valley area: "Getting a knife, a big one that is sharp. Going to cut my arm down the whole arm so it doesn't waste time." As if this wasn't disturbing ...

Kutcher's Million, Twilight In Paris, and Jury Box Tweeting
WebProNews Feed — ... Presumably the Twitter searching populace isn’t searching for Ashton Kutcher because they’ve already found him. Microsoft’s ...

The race to a million Twitter followers is on
VentureBeat — ... and Ashton Kutcher. With Twitter’s growth continuing to explode, one of them is likely to surpass the million follower mark sometime soon. ...

What Are A Million Social-Media Followers, Friends Or Subscribers Worth?
paidContent — Companies and celebrities are boasting about the number of fans and followers they've racked up across various social-media sites, which begs the question: Does that kind of following have any financial value, or is it just one giant popularity contest? In the case of Twitter, it's most likely the latter. Don Dodge notes that celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears are closing in on the one-million follower mark. But since Twitter isn't a proven direct-sales channel, and there's no scalable way for Tweeters ...

Ashton Kutcher Promises To Punk Ted Turner If He Beats CNN To A Million Twitter Followers
TechCrunch — ... Apparently, actor Ashton Kutcher woke up today and realized he has a whole hell of a lot of Twitter followers. How many? Just shy of 850,000 now. Even more impressive to him though is that he’s near the number of Twitter followers that the number Twitter “user” ...

Twitter Fight! Larry King To Kutcher: CNN Will Bury You
TechCrunch — ... So far, it’s not working all that well for Kutcher. He is gaining followers at a remarkable rate — he now has over 870,000 followers — yesterday he had under 850,000. But ...

Kutcher/CNN Twitter Fight Day 3: EA Ups The Ante
TechCrunch — A couple days ago, actor Ashton Kutcher stated his goal to beat CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. He promised to punk CNN founder Ted Turner if the Internet made it happen. Yesterday, CNN anchor Larry King fired back at Kutcher saying that one man couldn’t take down a whole network. Kutcher was still trailing CNN by tens of thousands of followers, so he upped the ante by offering his one millionth follower the popular game Guitar Hero. A pretty weak offering for a movie star. He later came back with an ...

EA Gets Involved in Ashton Kutcher/ CNN Twitter Race, Offers Huge Bounty [Rumor]
Kotaku — ... Kutcher promises to ding-dong ditch CNN founder Ted Turner's house. Last night, Electronic Arts Tweated that they would put Kutcher's millionth follower in a video game if the actor won the race. Today the publisher updated their offer: @aplusk's 1,000,000th follower will get a copy of every game EA makes in '09 for their system and be featured in @TheSims3 Sure it's silly, but what's wrong with that. And as much as I want Kutcher to win, I want CNN to lose ten times more. So DO IT! Kutcher's Twitter [Twitter]

Ashton Kutcher Beating Britney Spears In 1 Million Twitter Follower Race
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... currently has 912,520 followers and Ashton has 914,473. Both are competing with the CNNbrk account which tweets out breaking news on CNN.com. CNNbrk has about 946,673 followers. ...

The Race to 1,000,000 Followers: an Update
Technologizer — Some of you may have heard about Aston Kutcher’s challenge to CNN: that he would punk Ted Turner if he beat the network to a million followers. That prompted network stalwart Larry King to shoot back at Kutcher in a funny-but-slightly-uncomfortable-to-watch video: ...

CNN, Ashton, Twitter … Oh My
Mashable! — ... , it all started when Kutcher (@aplusk) put out a video declaring that he wanted to beat CNN to one million followers. He upped the ante today by tweeting that he’d also donate 10,000 bed nets to help fight malaria if he was first. ...

So what do you do with 1 million followers?
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... No. It’s all about some actor named Ashton Kutcher, whose only real claim to fame at this point is being married to Demi Moore, looking to reach 1 million followers on ...

CNN acquires leading Twitter account
Webware.com — ... The acquisition comes as the race to 1 million Twitter followers heats up. As of Wednesday afternoon, Ashton Kutcher was in second place with 917,000 followers, followed closely by ...

Ted Turner May Endorse Kutcher In The Race For A Million Twitter Followers
TechCrunch — ... It’s still not entirely clear what Ted Turner has to do with any of this. While he did start CNN, as Larry King noted, he no longer runs it. But Kutcher wanted to punk him, so now he’s apparently involved whether he wants to be or not. Meanwhile, it’s probably a good idea for him to concede “defeat” as Kutcher is gaining quickly on the CNN Twitter account. Kutcher is now past 920,000 followers and is less than 30,000 away from ...

Kutcher and CNN Battle for Millionth Twitter Fan - Sims 3 Prize Awaits
Today @ PC World — ... post when he realized how close he and CNN were to hitting the one million-follower milestone on Twitter. Kutcher said in the video post he will ' ding dong ditch ' (that's 'ring and run' to the plus 30 crowd) Ted Turner and post the video of the prank online if he beats out CNN--Turner founded CNN in 1980, but no longer runs the network. Kutcher later added via Twitter that if he wins, he will also donate money to ...

CNN, Ashton Kutcher Battle for 1M Twitter Followers
AppScout — Embedded video from CNN Video Actor Ashton Kutcher is competing with CNN to see who can be the first to reach 1 million Twitter followers. If Kutcher reaches that 1 million follower mark first, he will donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day later this month. If he loses, he'll donate 1,000. CNN has agreed to do the same. As of 10 a.m. Eastern time, Kutcher's @aplusk account had 947,758 followers, while CNN's Breaking News @cnnbrk feed had 963,178 followers. CNN has 45 official Twitter accounts for its various TV ...

Interviews: CNN acquires own Twitter account, @cnnbrk, from James Cox
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... The race to 1 million Twitter followers has turned into a particularly 21st century kind of media circus.  Ashton Kutcher, who has been steadily elevating ...

News Bits: Twitter Chases Distribution Deals
Contentinople: — ... developed it for two years. Over the past two years, Cox brought @cnnbrk to more than 960,000 followers, putting it in tight competition with Ashton Kutcher and ...

Ironically, Kutcher Crosses 1 Million Fans on Facebook Before Twitter
Inside Facebook — Ashton Kutcher and CNN have been publicizing their recent race to 1 million Twitter followers recently, with Kutcher saying he will donate 1,000 malaria nets to Malaria No More and video game publisher EA offering to put Kutcher’s 1,000,000th follower in The Sims 3. It’s been covered everywhere from Cele|bitchy to TechCrunch. Currently, it’s a dead heat, with Kutcher at about 955,000 followers, and CNN at about 969,000. However, ironically, Kutcher’s public profile on Facebook has just crossed 1 million fans first - ...

Operation Basement Dad: How 4Chan Could Beat CNN & Ashton Kutcher
ReadWriteWeb — While Ashton Kutcher and CNN are trying to be the first to hit 1 million followers on Twitter, Joseph Frieschel, an inconspicuous Australian MD, is quickly catching up. Frieschel only opened his Twitter account last night, but he already has over to 200,000 followers. How can this be? Well, it looks like the anonymous members of the infamous 4chan imageboard didn't like the idea of either Kutcher or CNN breaking the 1 million follower barrier before they got a chance to make their presence felt. Sponsor 4Chan ...

The Race to a Million Twitter Followers
WebProNews Feed — ... . He made the announcement via Twitter this afternoon. His Twitter account currently boasts about 960,000 followers. I’m no good at math, but it appears Ashton is outpacing Don Dodge’s prediction he’d reach the million follower goal by April 21. ...

Twitter Gets the Oprah Treatment
Bits — ... for details on viewing the show in your area.) Ashton Kutcher will be on the show, according to Oprah’s Web site. He is one of Twitter’s most active ...

Kutcher Surges Past CNN On Twitter — But You Can’t Unfollow Either
TechCrunch — Up until this point, despite all the press he was getting, Ashton Kutcher was behind CNN in the race to become the first Twitter user with a million followers. Not anymore. Kutcher surged past CNN on Thursday evening, likely clearing the last hurdle that stands between him and Ted Turner’s doorstep — he promised to ding dong ditch the CNN founder if he was the first to a million followers. Since then, Kutcher and others have upped the stakes. EA is offering Kutcher’s millionth follower a copy of every single game it makes in ...

Following the great Twitter race to 1 million
Webware.com — ... The race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN to become the first Twitter user to get 1 million followers is nearing the end, and both sides are stepping up their game. CNN went live on TV to promote their own account, trying to best Kutcher, and Kutcher has responded by going live on Ustream.tv to try to push himself over the top. ...

Ashton Kutcher to win Twitter Race against CNN
I4U News — ... to be the first to have 1 million followers on Twitter. Right now the Kutcher's aplusk account has 998,162 followers and grows pretty fast. The million is just minutes away. ...

Kutcher Plays His Pied Piper Flute And Gets A Million Twitter Followers
TechCrunch — ... His upbringing on Twitter was a humble one. The hugely popular actor started with just a handful of followers when he signed up a few months ago. But soon, he and his famous actress wife, ...

Ashton Kutcher Hits 1 Million Twitter Followers
Mashable! — Have no doubt: Twitter has gone mainstream. And Ashton Kutcher has a million followers. At the time of writing, Kutcher is still live streaming (video below) his successful attempt to reach 1 million Twitter followers before CNN, which Kutcher reports has been clamouring for new followers on its live news ticker. On Friday morning he goes on Oprah, who will post her first @oprah Tweet on live TV, reaching millions of US households. It’s hard to define, exactly, when Twitter entered the public conscience: perhaps the Hudson plane ...

Ashton Kutcher beats CNN to 1 million Twitter followers
Gadgetell — ... Arts said that if Kutcher won that the one millionth follower would end up in one of EA’s games.  Additionally, Kutcher said he would donate $100,000 to a charity to aid in cure for malaria if he won.  What does this mean for the rest of us?  Well, Twitter’s already pretty mainstream and there’s supposed to be a big announcement today.  Is this the “jump the shark” moment or does this legitimize Twitter a bit? Follow [@aplusk] Full Story » | Written by Iyaz Akhtar for ...

Ashton vs. CNN; Web vs. TV. Web FTW!
Webware.com — ... For me, though, I could care less about Kutcher's celebrity and his ability to get tons and tons of people to do the almost unbelievably easy task of clicking "follow" on his Twitter account. Rather, it was seeing this real-time face-off between Kutcher and friends, streaming ...

Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.
textually.org — The race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN to become the first Twitter user to get 1,000,000 followers is nearing the end and both sides are stepping up their game. CNN went live on TV to promote their own account, trying to best Kutcher and Kutcher has responded by going live on Ustream.tv to try and push himself over the top. According to congratulatory posts on both Ashton Kutcher's and CNN's Twitter accounts about an hour ago, Ashton Kutcher is the first account to reach 1MM followers. [via News.com] ...

Should We Care about Ashton Kutcher?
Screenwerk — ... The sometime entrepreneur and actor has become the first to reach 1M Twitter followers. Why do we care? The only reason is because celebrities on Twitter and the drama of who would reach the milestone first are helping to drive mainstream media coverage of Twitter, which in turn fuels its popularity. Oprah is now going to Twitter and her show will drive millions of moms to the service. (Oprah will take less than a month to get to a million followers.) My wife is now on Twitter (completely independent of me) and ...

The story of how CNN acquired the most followed account on Twitter
The Next Web — ... note: CNN was the most followed account on Twitter at time of writing. Ashton Kutcher is now the most followed person on Twitter after reaching the million follower milestone first. ...

Will Kutcher Butcher Twitter?
Today @ PC World — Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN to create the largest to-date Twitter following of 1 million subscribers. That means at least 1 million people actually care what Ashton Kutcher is doing at any moment. twitter kutcher The battle finished at 2:13 this morning with a victory from Kutcher. This means that the 1 millionth follower will be featured in The Sims 3 and receive a copy of every game produced by Electronic Arts in 2009. Also, Kutcher will donate money to buy 10,000 anti-mosquito bed nets for African families to help fight the spread of malaria on ...

Twitter's big day today? Here comes Oprah
Webware.com — ... by the minute on Friday morning. She embodies an element of mainstream America and has sway over a vast audience. An Oprah endorsement makes it a lot easier for a start-up to legitimately argue it's broken out of its tech niche, or at least breaking out of it. Twitter will be the subject of discussion at the show, and Williams will be making an appearance, though wearing dirty socks, he said. Vying for with Oprah for Twitter celebrity du jour status is Ashton Kutcher, a.k.a. aplusk, who on Thursday became the first Twitter user to attract 1 ...

Ashton Reaches A Million Followers
WebProNews Feed — ... About 2 a.m. East Coast time, Ashton Kutcher declared victory in attracting one million followers on Twitter. For what it’s worth—is it worth something?—CNN piggyback publicity team ...

Oprah to Tweet on TV Today (Say That 10 Times Fast)
Switched — ... Yesterday, at approximately 2:10 p.m. EST, Oprah Winfrey announced her entry into Twitter society via a post on her Facebook page. Less than two hours later, she already had upwards of 33,000 Twitter followers. According to TechCrunch, Oprah will welcome Ashton "King of Twitter" Kutcher to today's show, from whence she will emit her very first tweet. Apparently, Kutcher has pledged to donate $100,000 to fight malaria in Africa, but only if he can amass one million Twitter followers before CNN does (which he did around 2 ...

Kutcher Beats CNN in Twitter Race.. Oprah to Join Fray
Today @ PC World — Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN to create the largest to-date Twitter following of 1 million subscribers. That means at least 1 million people actually care what Ashton Kutcher is doing at any moment. twitter kutcher The battle finished at 2:13 this morning with a victory from Kutcher. This means that the 1 millionth follower will be featured in The Sims 3 and receive a copy of every game produced by Electronic Arts in 2009. Also, Kutcher will donate money to buy 10,000 anti-mosquito bed nets for African families to help fight the spread of malaria on ...

The Web in Numbers: The Rise of Social Media
Mashable! — ... Twitter followers. If you type “Ashton Kutcher” into Google, his Twitter account will be the third result. ...

How to unfollow Ashton Kutcher
Webware.com — Twitter is getting fishy. In the race between Ashton Kutcher (aplusk on Twitter) and the CNN Breaking News feed (CNNbrk) to get to one million followers first, Kutcher won. But was the race goosed by Twitter itself? ...

Hey Twitter, keep the shades off
The Social — ... Oprah's crazy about it. Ashton Kutcher and Anderson Cooper are making fools of themselves trying to show what rabid fans they are. Friday, April 17, 2009 will pretty much go down as the day when the loyally-followed indie-rock band known ...

Hey Twitter, keep the shades off
Webware.com — ... Oprah's crazy about it. Ashton Kutcher and Anderson Cooper are making fools of themselves trying to show what rabid fans they are. Friday, April 17, 2009 will pretty much go down as the day when the loyally-followed indie-rock band known as "Twitter" made its big major-label splash. If it were the late '90s, this would be its big debut on "Total Request Live" with Carson Daly and a bunch of screaming girls waving posters with crudely-drawn fail-whales and "MARRY ME, EVAN WILLIAMS!" scrawled on them. But in keeping with the ...

OMG Oprah Starts Using Twitter
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... and Ashton Kutscher are currently leading the fray in celebrity twitter use, especially given his recent win to 1,000,000 followers against CNN and her fundraiser to fight malaria with nets. We can only presume Oprah will be using the power of the mobilized people to pull off similar feats. Honourable mention goes out to the welcome by mobile browser, ...

Thanks to Oprah, we can finally stop talking about Twitter
VentureBeat — ... At least Kutcher isn’t getting too big-headed about his accomplishment. In response to a tweet declaring him the “King of Twitter,” Kutcher responded, “There are no kings on Twitter, only jesters.” Yes, exactly. ...

Oprah on Twitter: This Is What We Were Waiting For?
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... Then you’ve got Mister One Million himself, the great Ashton Kutcher (or, as he’s known on Twitter, aplusk). Kutcher may have ...

Twitter's Big Day: Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher Bring Twitter to the Mainstream
ReadWriteWeb — Twitter has gone mainstream. Late last night, Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) became the first Twitter user with more than 1 million followers. Today, media mogul Oprah Winfrey sent out her first tweet and will dedicate a full episode of her talk show to Twitter. While Twitter's sudden mainstream appeal might be somewhat disconcerting for early adopters who would prefer it if Twitter wasn't suddenly the cool new thing to try out for soccer moms, it will surely bring a lot of new opportunities (and challenges) for Twitter. ...

Twitterati Eric Schmidt, Ashton Kutcher, Oprah
VC Ratings — ...  by Kutcher and Twitter co-founders on Oprah and CNN's Larry King are due imminently. On Twitter, you can follow Kutcher @aplusk, wife Demi Moore ...

New Twitter Worm Targets Celebrities
Wired: Epicenter — ... The worm hacks into Twitter profiles and automatically sends unauthorized Twitter status updates to contacts from the hacked accounts. Users who look at infected profiles are then automatically infected, and unauthorized posts are automatically sent to their contacts. Possibly infected accounts are creating posts that mention the Twitter profile names of celebrities such as Kutcher and Winfrey, said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. If the celebrities see the posts and click on the profile names they came from, the infection could spread ...

Oprah joins Twitter: let the backlash begin
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... The show also crowned Ashton Kutcher King of Twitter for becoming the first user with a million followers, following a race with the CNN Breaking News account. ...

We Were So Wrong About Twitter
louisgray.com — By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed) It feels like ages ago, but it was only four months ago when the extended louisgray.com team debated whether Twitter would go mainstream. Did we underestimate Twitter and its team? No. We did not foresee who would be using it. What did we think was needed for Twitter to hit the mainstream? Here are some examples of what we were thinking: It needs a lot of filtering and searching. There is too much noise for most people. It is too public, and it only fits a small niche of the ...

Pushed By Celebrities, Twitter Is Poised To Double Its Monthly Traffic Once Again
TechCrunch — ... . Last week, his pageviews rose to an incredible 3.2 million — yes, that is just for his Twitter profile page. In the same time span, ...

Tweet Champ
dailywireless.org — It’s not yet clear exactly what effect Oprah had on Twitter, says TechCrunch. Oprah featured the service, CEO Evan Williams, and its first million-follower user, Ashton Kutcher on her show on Friday. When anything gains mainstream popularity, there are always some early adopters who will start denouncing it. Some do this out of spite, some out of odd principle, some because they think they’re too cool to do something that a lot of other people do. But, I’m here to tell you ...

Twitter Caps Following Limits, Denting Auto-Follow Services
louisgray.com — ... In the last few weeks, Web and print media have been awash in discussion of some of the largest accounts on Twitter reaching the 1 million follower mark. Assuming Ashton Kutcher and others were to follow Twitter's rule to only follow 1,000 new accounts a day, it would take Ashton 3 years to follow all that follow him, assuming no more new users found his account interesting. It seems Twitter would prefer that these celebrity accounts only follow, say... 93 as Ashton does, rather than the nearly 400,000 ...

Are Celebrities Causing Twitter to Evolve or Devolve?
WebProNews Feed — ... Is Twitter evolving or devolving as a result of celebrities taking it over? You have celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, ...

No Doubt About It - Oprah Brought Lots of New Users to Twitter
ReadWriteWeb — ... that Twitter has received Oprah's Midas touch, the real question will be to see how many of these new users will stick around. While Oprah devoted a large segment of her show on Friday to Twitter, she did not really explain the service in any great detail. We will have to see if the majority of new users will actually use the service as intended, or if they will just stick to following celebrities like Oprah, Britney Spears (who also now has more than 1 million followers), or Aston Kutcher, whose race with CNN for reaching more than 1 million followers surely also ...

Inside the Minds of Twitter Users
Mashable! — ... Or, “People who have a large number of followers are definitely not smarter than those who don’t.” What does it really mean that Ashton has one million followers, and the writer Paulo Coelho, last year named Spain’s Best International Writer, has a mere 17,827? Does this mean that Ashton could write circles around Paulo? Is Ashton more widely respected? Or is it really about notoriety and celebrity? The latter, according to the survey. ...

Numbers Can’t Begin To Describe Twitter’s Impact
Wired: Epicenter — You had to see this coming, what with @Oprah (Winfrey) discovering it and Ashton “@aplusk” Kutcher challenging CNN to a duel over who’d reach a million followers first, but Twitter had explosive growth in March. It more than doubled U.S. visitors alone to 9.3 million (19 million worldwide, Techcrunch says), making Twitter the fastest-growing site last month, according to Comscore. Numbers that impressive mean the site is more than just the net’s latest craze — it means the service has become an inescapable ...

Celebrities + Twitter + A Good Cause = A Retweet Explosion Tomorrow?
TechCrunch — The race between actor Ashton Kutcher and CNN to a million Twitter followers at first seemed to be little more than an exercise in online vanity. But then it transformed into a race to help out a cause, Malaria No More, in a meaningful way. But really, why does anyone need a race to do that? With that in mind, tomorrow, Kutcher, with his nearly 1.4 million followers, and Digg’s Kevin Rose, with his over 500,000 followers, along with other notable users plan to use to Twitter as a platform to further the cause. The ...

A Sign Of Things To Come: Naked Pizza Erects Twitter Billboard
TechCrunch — ... This isn’t the first time Twitter has been featured on a billboard. Just last week, Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter handle was displayed on ...

World Malaria Day: Tweet to Beat Malaria!
Mashable! — ... Special credit for getting the ball rolling on World Malaria Day’s social media efforts goes to Ashton Kutcher, who donated 10,000 nets to the cause after ...

Top Ten Things "tink!" Could Be?
Inventor Spot - Inventions, Innovations, and Interesting Ideas for the Inventor in All of Us — ... April 23, at 1:14AM, with the simple word: "tink!" From that day forward, 1000s of tweets have flooded into the Twitterverse questioning what he meant by that! [image] Up until the time of this posting on April 26, 2009, tweeps continue to be left in the dark, with only a handful of updates from Knight, the most recent of which noted: "Dante is gonna make a video of me demonstrating what Tink! is...  I'll put it on the website or something..." [image] While we wait to find out if Ashton Kutcher is hiding in the bushes waiting to send us all a "punk'd," tweet or whether ...

Oprah, Bored With Twitter, Still Its Hottest Account
Silicon Alley Insider — ... For instance, Ashton Kutcher, the most popular person on Twitter, has only added about 500,000 new followers since April 17 -- the day he ...

News Bits: Obama Streamed on YouTube, Hulu Tonight
Contentinople: — ... dwindling since she first signed up, with not a peep out of her in more than four days... NOOOOOO!!!! Some Twitterers (Tweeters? Twits?) are here to stay, however, according to New York Magazine . The mag ranked Twitter personalities on a Twitter approval matrix , from news-sharing to navel-gazing and from insightful to insipid. Some of the more insightful Tweeters are The Office 's Mindy Kaling and PressThink 's Jay Rosen , while ever-popular Ashton Kutcher and gossip blogger Perez Hilton are ranked insipid. Go figure. ...

60% of Twitterers Quit After a Month, but Does It Matter?
Fast Company - Technology — Some new data from Nielsen Online suggests that Twitter has a retention rate of just 40% after one month of usage--60% of users leave. This is despite Twitter's growth in user numbers, including its adoption by celebrities like Oprah (@oprah) and Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), and news outlets like CNN (@CNN), as well as its growing role as a news service propelling it into the public eye. But will this figure represent trouble for Twitter? Nielsen's research looked into the "follow versus follow-through" behavior of Twitter's users, ...

Podcast: Is Twitter Making Us Stupider
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... ," he questioned our patter. This amazingly entertaining, truculent swipe, created months after Twitter's launch predicts everything that is wrong with the service, but without the foresight to imagine what it could become. And still a reading of this seminal piece turned me crimson with the shame of a drunkard the morning after, silenced my Twittering for days, fueled me to sneer at Ashton Kutcher , ...

Are Celebrities Causing Twitter to Evolve or Devolve?
WebProNews Feed — ... to mass hoopla surrounding Twitter and celebrities starting Twitter accounts, racing to get the most followers, etc. There's no question that celebrity Twitter use is good for expanding the social network's user base, but what's it doing to Twitter as a communication tool? Is Twitter evolving or devolving as a result of celebrities taking it over? (Tell us what you think.)You have celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, and Oprah who have gained massive amounts of ...

Guardian Tech twitter feed passes Stephen Fry (and Jennifer Aniston) for followers
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Comin' atcha, Kutcher. On your case, Oprah. But where are you, Jennifer Aniston? The occasion: Guardian Technology's Twitter feed - which was started in 2001 - earlier this morning passed Stephen Fry, the UK's most-loved geek, for followers. At the time of writing, @guardiantech has 466,027 ...

Search From Your Twitter Page. So What?
Wired: Epicenter — Twitter has finally added a search box and a list of trending topics to user pages, embracing functionality that’s already baked into most, if not all, of the third-party applications we suspect account for the lion’s share of Tweet activity. Catch-up ball is fine, and search should always have been part of the basic user interface, rather than a stand-alone page. But on a broader level, we’re not really sure why Twitter needs a web strategy at all. Plenty of us access the service from third-party platforms, and the company says it needs very little money ...

Apple's affectionate, slightly starstruck Twitter HQ profile
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Cult of Mac, Internet Tools, Apple What's the microblogging trend that pits Ashton against CNN? Yes, it's Twitter -- you can dig it, and apparently so can Apple. The social-media darling is the subject of a glowing profile on Apple's Business site, bearing the humble and understated headline "Twitter. Triumph of humanity." Mmm-kay. Aside from the slightly over-reverent "here's to the crazy ones" tone, the profile is quite interesting; it points out that Twitter's development ...

Nine Twitter tips for business
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Big companies think about buying Twitter. Now let's shut up
Webware.com — ... Yes, Apple. It's a hardware company that really only markets and hypes up software as a means to sell more hardware--like how iTunes really exists to sell iPods--and yet apparently it wants to buy Twitter. I'm not sure Twitter could convince me to buy any hardware, except maybe a water balloon to carry around in the hopes that maybe I could lob it at annoyingly Twitter-happy Ashton Kutcher. ...

10 Twitters Worth Following!
Gadgenista — ... it was bothersome to update both my personal Twitter and Gadgenista at the same! Then thank the geek gods for Splitweet, managing them both because so much easier. So now apparently Twitter way popular than before and so many celebrities and personalities are actually Twittering! So here’s my list of Twitterers worth following: Obama Gadgenista. Love your own! Haha. CNN Oprah Ashton Kutcher Rachel Zoe EzTV. For your latest TV episode bittorent ...

10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media
Mashable! — ... This list could be exclusive to Twitter. From Tweetsgiving, the Twitter fundraiser that raised enough money to build a new classroom for a school in Tanzania, to Twestival, which organized 202 off-line events around the world to benefit charity: water, it’s become the de facto tool for organizing and taking action. Tweet Congress won the SXSW activism award, and celebrity Tweeps Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Rose Tweeted their two million followers about ending malaria. ...

Ning Gets A Star Studded Boost From The Collective
TechCrunch — ... Over the last few months celebrities have become something of a currency on the social web as services vie to attract big-name stars (and gather the resulting media coverage and new users in the process). Twitter has garnered the most attention for its roster, which includes celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and ...

Ashton Kutcher Pranks CNN Over Twitter Triumph
Switched — ... After beating the cable news channel in a race to one-million Twitter followers last month, celebrity tweeter-extraordinaire Ashton Kutcher harkened back to his 'Punk'd' days on Wednesday, making good on his promise to prank the losing CNN. Kutcher unfurled a banner with his Twitter name, "@aplusk" across the CNN logo at the company's downtown Atlanta headquarters. Accompanied by a film crew that was broadcasting the event live on the Internet, Kutcher and his band of followers met in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park. During ...

Twitter, Facebook & the 'Power of Now'
Internet Evolution: — ... (yes it's all lower case), the people on Twitter following Ashton Kutcher are really the Demi Moore crowd, not teens. Perhaps the answer is the obvious one, that the two properties serve different purposes. Facebook is a hub where you go to manage a network of friends, and Twitter is where it's at for real-time news feeds and rapid-fire information sharing. However, both services involve self-expression and networks, and it seems -- right now, anyway -- that Twitter has the momentum. The real-time nature of Twitter feeds, combined with the asynchronous attributes inherent to ...

Twitter developing a TV show? Not exactly
TechBlog — ... you had for breakfast, but if that's all you do, you're not going to find yourself on a lot of folks' following lists. Twitter also is increasingly becoming a focus for celebrities who want to either interact directly - but in a detached, safe way - with their fans (or pay their publicists to do it for them). Some of the celebrity chatter can be fascinating, and some of it can be irritating. You'll either be amused or put off by the banter between Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher . MC Hammer and Monty Python's John Cleese are always good ...

Ashton and Demi's angst about Twitter TV show
Technically Incorrect — ... Today, the real Ashton Kutcher himself tweeted his concern about the show's content: "Wow I hope this isn't true. I really don't like being sold out. May have to take a twitter hiatus." ...

Ashton Kutcher Uses Twitter to Punk the Media
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) is threatening to quit Twitter over (not so true) rumors the micro-blogging service had signed a TV deal. His exact Tweet: Now, I have to admit, this is either brilliant or naive. Brilliant, if Kutcher is punking the media with such a claim. After all, the guy is known for messing with people’s heads. It’s quite possible that the guy–who can’t live without the spotlight–is simply acting upset, in order to get even more attention than he received from his Oprah appearance. ...

Ashton Kutcher's Threat To Leave The Media
WebProNews Feed — Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) is threatening to quit Twitter over (not so true) rumors the micro-blogging service had signed a TV deal. His exact Tweet: Now, I have to admit, this is either brilliant or naive. Brilliant, if Kutcher is punking the media with such a claim. After all, the guy is known for messing with people’s heads. It’s quite possible that the guy–who can’t live without the spotlight–is simply acting upset, in order to get even more attention than he received from his Oprah appearance. ...

Proposed Twitter Reality Show Scaring Off Celebrity Twitterers?
Switched — ... co-founder Biz Stone countered with "Twitter's open approach might have the power to transform television." Yeah, but what will we all do without Ashton's enthralling, slice-of-life gems (like, "on lunch break")? We guess we'll have to be content reading ...

Twitter creator reflects on how the service can evolve
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Keep it down! It's not easy for Twitter creator and Chairman Jack Dorsey to focus on ways to improve the product when everyone won't stop chirping about it. Every celebrity from Ashton to Zac Efron is Twittering, and it was even the subject on Oprah last month. Dorsey and his co-founders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, have been featured in countless profiles in practically every major publication. And now there's talk of a Twitter TV show. Will the hype ever die down? "I hope so," Dorsey said ...

Top 10 Twitter Users
Binary Head — ... Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor and former fashion model married to actress Demi Moore. He was also the creator, executive producer, and host of the MTV celebrity prank show Punk’d. Follow Ashton on twitter @apulsk ...

Ashton Hits 2 Million Followers on Twitter
Mashable! — ... We’re talking of course about the one and only @aplusk, otherwise known as Ashton Kutcher, who has surpassed another milestone this evening, becoming the first person to cross the 2 million follower mark with 2,000,420 devotees at the time of publication. ...

Could Celebrities Drum Up Mass iGoogle Interest?
WebProNews Feed — Google has introduced the iGoogle showcase, which is a gallery of celebrity iGoogle pages for you to peruse, and if you like one well enough, emulate theirs for your own. I suspect this is a way to generate more interest in the use of iGoogle (it certainly worked for Twitter). If you want to know my thoughts on iGoogle as a social media entity, read my article here. Suffice it to say, I think it is an ideal place for Google to create a central hub for its own social products and features. Unsurprisingly, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are involved. ...

Tweets That'll Get You Fired From Celeb Ghost Twittering
Wired Top Stories — ... aplusk KILLER! Just saw my wife in Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark" video. She TOTALLY looks the same 25 years later. AWESOME!!! ...

#Urahoe: More Proof Of The Stupidity Of Twitter Trending Topics
Valleywag — ... Popularity now = hoeness. EllieLuvVP #urahoe if you have sex on ur period This one reveals to anyone who still doubted that perceptions of female promiscuity and ideas of ritual purity are linked. sartastic #urahoe If you're a guy and having an affair with a cougar. Here's a stereotype we didn't know existed! Apparently guys who have sex with older women are hoes now. Sorry @aplusk. But this one is the best: PeteOMalley #urahoe if ...

User acquisition: writing on a notice board vs. sending a postcard
Angus Logan's Blog — ... friends I form relationships with in many different contexts make me behave differently. For example a friend I instant message with is different to someone I’ve friended in a social network, which is different to someone who’s commented on my blog etc. If you are a celebrity and you have a TON of followers, writing something to your stream is very powerful. If you aren’t Ashton but have a ridiculous number of friends, do they care about your entries or are they noise? Call me anytime, I actually know you The people who connect with my ...

TweetPsych puts your Twitter feed on the couch
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... takes a closer look at your public Twitter feed and reads between the lines, looking for clues about your personality. Take, for example, Twitter poster boy Ashton Kutcher , who (according to TweetPsych, at least) tweets a lot in the present tense ("Watching the match and loving it!!!"), exhibits a fair amount of "abstract thought," but apparently has a bit of an aggressive streak. Then you've got Virgin mogul ...

Bing! Tech Celeb Olivia Munn Lands Role in Iron Man 2
Mashable! — ... , Ashton Kutcher, and other stars have experienced increased press, attention, and fan support from their social media efforts. ...

How To Save MySpace: The Seven-Step Plan
paidContent — Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, the premier online community to find and share professional documents. Before starting Docstoc, he was a partner in a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles where he worked with dozens of startups. I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world.  They also have a new management team, that’s headed up in part by Michael Jones (COO), the most all around talented internet executive ...

Ashton and Demi Use Twitter Influence to Fight Hunger
Mashable! — ... If you had 3.6 million Twitter followers and counting, what would you do with all of that influence? Well, if you’re Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and Demi Moore ( ...

Celebrities mourn Michael Jackson's death via Twitter
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Ashton Kutcher: I plea to the press to respect his wishes of maintaining the anonymity of his children. ...

15 Must-Follow Comedic Film Actors on Twitter
Mashable! — ... Name: Ashton Kutcher Who: Oprah called Ashton the “King of Twitter” in April, and while he may not be the king, he’s certainly the most followed person on the service. Possibly best known for his role as Michael Kelso on “That 70’s Show,” Ashton Kutcher also has a successful film career, starring in movies like Guess Who and Dude, Where’s My Car? Why: Ashton will likely be the first Twitter user to reach 3 million followers, and ...

Ashton Hits 3 Million Twitter Followers, But Who’s Still Counting?
Mashable! — We’re not sure that anybody cares at this point, but Twitter’s most popular user has broken another milestone: 3 million followers. It took Ashton Kutcher more than four months to reach 1 million Twitter followers. It only took him a month and a half to double his following to 2 million. And now, he has 3 million people following his tweets, wherever they come from. But does his personal rise matter to the social media world anymore? It’s strange to think that just a few ...

YouTube: Our Facebook Page Will Have More Fans than Megan Fox and Vin Diesel or “We’ll Eat Humble Pie”
Inside Facebook — ... Facebook Page leaderboards, claiming that it will surpass Will Smith, Megan Fox, Lady Gaga, Adam Sandler and yes, even Vin Diesel – all in the next 60 days – or else it will “eat humble pie” and spotlight a video on the YouTube home page for a nonprofit cause of their choosing. Here’s the offer from Hunter Walk, YouTube’s Director of Product Management: OK, Ashton might have more followers on Twitter than we do, but we’re ...

Dead president has a Twitter account
The Social — ... Former president John Quincy Adams might not be re-tweeting Ashton Kutcher and Shaq any time soon, but he does have a Twitter account now. The Massachusetts Historical Society has launched a Twitter ...

Dead president has a Twitter account
Webware.com — ... Former president John Quincy Adams might not be re-tweeting Ashton Kutcher and Shaq any time soon, but he does have a Twitter account now. The Massachusetts Historical Society has launched a Twitter account, @JQAdams_MHS, and will officially start tweeting Adams' personal diary entries on Wednesday. Adams died in 1848, right around the time that people first started flooding the San Francisco Bay Area in search of quick money. Except then it was in the form of gold, not venture dollars from Sand Hill Road. As an Associated Press ...

Tech Spotting: Ashton Kutcher Is an Apple Addict
GeekSugar — Tech-savvy Ashton Kutcher is certainly deserving of our celeb geek king title. What with his avid twittering habits, his new website projects, attendance at tech conferences, and love for gadgets, he certainly tops the list of celebrities who are connected in the tech scene. On ...

Don't Be A Player Platform Hater
John Battelle's Searchblog — I've been meaning to post a long-ish rant on the importance of celebrities taking control of their own platforms, but never gotten to it, in part because I'm not that enamored with the incessant selling of celebrity that occurs in our culture. Yeah, I sound like a grumpy old man, but I can't help myself. It bums me out - not because I don't like celebrities, but because the current approach strikes me as driven by short term thinking.   If, instead, more celebrities actually used their fame to take control of their own destiny and build a platform for themselves, they'd last longer, be ...

Geek Out: Who Is Your Favorite Twitterer?
GeekSugar — Just about everyone tweets. And every tweet is sacred in its own way (that is if you strike the RTs, lunch, and boredom updates from the record). While Ashton Kutcher may have more friends than most, I find I get the most learnings and laughs from following Mashable, Rachel ...

CrowdEye Introduces CrowdRank To Real-Time Search
TechCrunch — ... Fortunately, he includes other measures of influence too, like how many times any particular message has been retweeted. Otherwise @aplusk is going to show up at the top of every search. ...

Danny DeVito is a little late to Twitter
Download Squad — ... You're sick of hearing about it, and so am I. Ashton, Demi, Oprah, Miley, etc, etc, yadda, yadda, ad nauseum. Just a year ago Twitter still belonged to the geeks and a small army of fake "social media experts" so new only a few of them had been removed from their original plastic packaging. Now Twitter is the plaything of A through Z-list celebrities clamoring to validate their position in the universe. And then there was The Danny DeVito. Frankly, Danny DeVito doesn't need your foolish Twitter to validate his ...

Report: How Twitter Buzz is Built
Fast Company - Technology — ... That seems to indicate that people are following the issues, not the actual news agents themselves. Stay on a hot issue, and the popularity of you tweets stays high. How do we know? Because CNN Breaking News (@CNNBRK) is a separate Twitter stream from regular old CNN -- and even though it tweets very infrequently, it generates a lot of conversation. (Below, the raw data.) As the study notes, people with cult-of-personality status -- Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), Shaq (@THE_REAL_SHAQ), iJustine (@ijustine), MCHammer (@MCHammer) and ...

That explains why @Aplusk has 3 million+ followers…
The Next Web — ... Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) has 3,567,386 followers on Twitter which makes him the #1 most followed Twitter user in the world. Well, now I understand how that happened: via Microbloggin.it ...

Kutcher Coaches Advertisers on How to Use Social Media
Contentinople: — NEW YORK -- Insisting that consumers are more likely to buy a product that is recommended to them by a friend than if they saw it plugged in a random commercial, TV star and Twitter king ...

Twitter’s Most Engaging Celebrities [Stats]
Mashable! — ... is the sentiment for tweets involving celebrities? Brian Solis (FutureWorks) and PeopleBrowsr analyzed this information in his Twitter Celebrity Report for August 2009. Some highlights: She may have quit Twitter earlier this month, but actress/singer Miley Cyrus led celebrity Twitter mentions in August 2009, with an impressive 255,938 @mileycyrus mentions Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) had the most followers in August with 3,778,464 — but The Ellen ...

Tim Berners-Lee Joins Twitter
Xconomy — ... Berners-Lee is gaining Twitter followers fast—when we checked at 5:00 a.m. Eastern time this morning, he had 218. As of this writing, that number had zoomed up to 1,849. But the father of the Web still has a ways to go to catch up with Ashton Kutcher, who has more than 3.8 million followers. ...

Barack Obama, Taylor Swift Are Most Listed Twitterers
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere — ... most listed people or organizations on Twitter as of this writing. This could easily change as there are still many people who do not yet have Twitter lists enabled. Here is a short list of the most listed Twitterers as of right now, noonish on Thursday, October 29th. @BarackObama: 3,571 @taylorswift13: 3,178 @cnnbrk: 2,922 @mashable: 2,654 @TheEllenShow: 2,649 @johncmayer: 2,486 @ladygaga: 2,470 @aplusk: 2,441 @ddlovato: 2,246 katyperry: 2,196 @google: 2,143 ...

Do Celebs Get Preferential Twitter Treatment?
GeekSugar — A much publicized post on Slate asserts that Twitter is intentionally removing unflattering tweets to celebrities from search results. The author claims that he posted a tweet "teasing" the president of CNN (which he also describes as "as nasty an item as I thought I could write" without ...

Celebrity Twitter Accounts Among Most Listed Twitter Accounts
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere — ... the most listed Twitter accounts here and here that claim Mashable is the second most listed Twitter account. It hasn't been #2 for several days. Here is a more correct ranking of the top most listed accounts. Barack Obama: 11,007 Taylor Swift: 9,507 CNN Breaking: 8,777 The Ellen Show: 8,057 Shit My Dad Says: 7,954 Lady Gage: 7,695 Mashable: 7,665 Demi Lovato: 7,477 Ashton Kutcher: 7,176 John Mayer: 7,150 Britney Spears: 7,068 Katy ...

How Gary Vee Crushed His Way to a Bestseller
Fast Company - Technology — How can you assure yourself a bestseller? Become a celebrity. [Viral Loop Chronicles Part 3] There are two kinds of books that are almost surefire hits and which publishers will bid what may seem like insane amounts: Those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities, and those written by (or ghostwritten for) celebrities. Andre Agassi signed a deal for a reported $5 million for his upcoming autobiography, which isn't yet available but already inching its way toward the top of Amazon's sales rankings. Bill Clinton received $15 million to write his 2005 autobiography, My Life, widely ...

Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul
Fast Company - Technology — ... It's not just talk. Some 3.9 million people follow Kutcher on Twitter (@aplusk), and he has nearly 3.3 million Facebook fans. Those numbers have helped attract corporate clients beyond Nestlé -- including Pepsi and Kellogg -- and supporters such as Oprah, Larry King, and former News Corp. No. 2 Peter Chernin. ...