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04-16-2009, 11:06 AM
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#1 | | Blood tests positive for LOL mod
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| Kutcher/CNN Twitter Fight
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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 offer to buy 10,000 bed nets to help fight malaria in third world countries. Nice. And now, game maker Electronic Arts has now stepped into the fight with a big offer as well.
EA tweeted out earlier today that if Kutcher beats CNN to a million, it will put Kutcher's 1 millionth follower in a future EA game. The Twitter community is bound to eat this up.
And if Kutcher has any shot, they need to. As of today, he's still over 40,000 followers behind the cable network. And, while a lot of people aren't mentioning it, he's still actually behind Britney Spears, who just crossed the 900,000 follower mark. But Kutcher is growing faster. In just the past hour or so he's added a couple thousand followers, and when word of this EA deal gets out, that should jump.
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04-16-2009, 11:38 AM
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#2 | | In RS I Trust
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That's fricken awesome I would so be down to sign up just for that lol
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04-16-2009, 11:42 AM
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#3 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Whats so good about Twitter?
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04-16-2009, 12:10 PM
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#4 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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damn, already one of his followers
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04-16-2009, 12:10 PM
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#5 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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so wouldn't people try to hold off being a "follower" until its closer to the million so they have a better chance of being on the EA game? lol
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04-16-2009, 12:18 PM
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#6 | | Blood tests positive for LOL mod
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Originally Posted by bsftong  so wouldn't people try to hold off being a "follower" until its closer to the million so they have a better chance of being on the EA game? lol | Same thing I was thinking, EA's head isn't in the game Here's their latest shenanigans | |
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04-16-2009, 12:40 PM
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#7 | | I don't get it
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^lmao! massive fail on EA's part loll Quote:
Originally Posted by itsallaboutgz Whats so good about Twitter? | I wondering about that too.. hm.
In a sense i guess it does make ppl feel "closer" to certain idols/celebrities. But then again, i find that's sorta stalkerish.. =/
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04-16-2009, 12:45 PM
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#8 | | ninja edits your posts without your knowledge
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Pranking Ted Turner would be epic in all possibly ways.
It would be like pranking Warren Buffett
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04-16-2009, 12:52 PM
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#9 | | Network Admin Team
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Originally Posted by Mananetwork |  "How did this idea even get past the first idiot guy whispering it in some conference room? I know this is EA and everything, but come on now."
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04-16-2009, 02:14 PM
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#10 | | Banned (ABWS)
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961K (ak) vs 971K (cnn) earlier today
971K (ak) vs 975K (cnn) now
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04-16-2009, 03:28 PM
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#11 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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04-16-2009, 05:57 PM
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#12 | | The RS Freebie guru
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Latest stats here: http://85.14.217.35/tr/
Ashton Kutcher 983645
CNN 983268
Ashton has overtaken CNN!
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04-16-2009, 06:33 PM
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#13 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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wow.. that cnn twitter page isnt even made by cnn. however, cnn recently bought the name for an undisclosed sum.
that lucky fuck
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04-16-2009, 09:53 PM
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Anderson Cooper is begging for votes. Ashton Kutcher is going to win in the next 20 or so mins.
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04-16-2009, 10:08 PM
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Last 100 for ashton.
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04-16-2009, 10:13 PM
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#16 | | ninja edits your posts without your knowledge
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Ashton just won.
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04-16-2009, 10:18 PM
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#17 | | The "You'd Know" Moderator
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Wow I was only off by 50 or so...
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04-16-2009, 10:21 PM
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#18 | | The RS Freebie guru
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CNN just got Punk'd!
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04-16-2009, 10:24 PM
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#19 | | What hasn't Killed me, has made me more tolerant of RS!
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wouldn't let me follow, fail!!!
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04-17-2009, 12:08 AM
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#20 | | Blood tests positive for LOL mod
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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul CNN just got Punk'd! | Can't wait!
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04-17-2009, 12:18 AM
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#21 | | Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
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What do you want to bet less than 1 million people have seen: www.iousathemovie.com
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04-17-2009, 12:48 AM
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Originally Posted by impactX Wow I was only off by 50 or so... | How do you know what number you were?
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04-17-2009, 01:07 AM
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#23 | | Chinese Guy, Swedish Rides
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Ugh, what's the point of the race. -_-
Worse thing is, CNN's all like OMGWTGBBQMAPLESYRUP this is breaking news! Bah.
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04-17-2009, 01:26 AM
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#24 | | The "You'd Know" Moderator
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Originally Posted by El Bastardo How do you know what number you were? | By the time I looked for the group, it was at 1000053.
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04-17-2009, 09:12 AM
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#25 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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