[Mananetwork]

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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502030.html

[murd0c]

That's fricken awesome I would so be down to sign up just for that lol

[Ducdesmo]

Whats so good about Twitter?

[Grandmaster TSE]

damn, already one of his followers

[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

[Mananetwork]

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 (http://kotaku.com/5207521/update-ea-ships-illegal-weapons-to-press-wants-them-back)

[NimbeeTT]

^lmao! massive fail on EA's part loll

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.. =/

[CRS]

Pranking Ted Turner would be epic in all possibly ways.

It would be like pranking Warren Buffett

[rb]

Same thing I was thinking, EA's head isn't in the game
Here's their latest shenanigans (http://kotaku.com/5207521/update-ea-ships-illegal-weapons-to-press-wants-them-back)

:lol "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."

[taylor192]

961K (ak) vs 971K (cnn) earlier today
971K (ak) vs 975K (cnn) now

[flameboy54]

4chan's in on the action too

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/operation_basement_dad_how_4chan_is_manipulating_t witter.php

[InvisibleSoul]

Latest stats here:

http://85.14.217.35/tr/

Ashton Kutcher 983645
CNN 983268

Ashton has overtaken CNN!

[Drizzt Do'Urden]

wow.. that cnn twitter page isnt even made by cnn. however, cnn recently bought the name for an undisclosed sum.

that lucky fuck

[El Bastardo]

Anderson Cooper is begging for votes. Ashton Kutcher is going to win in the next 20 or so mins.

[CRS]

Last 100 for ashton.

[CRS]

Ashton just won.

[impactX]

Wow I was only off by 50 or so...

[InvisibleSoul]

CNN just got Punk'd!

[cleanEK]

wouldn't let me follow, fail!!!

[Mananetwork]

CNN just got Punk'd!

Can't wait!

[Jason00S2000]

What do you want to bet less than 1 million people have seen:


www.iousathemovie.com


Rome burns again

[El Bastardo]

Wow I was only off by 50 or so...

How do you know what number you were?

[+Kardboard+]

Ugh, what's the point of the race. -_-

Worse thing is, CNN's all like OMGWTGBBQMAPLESYRUP this is breaking news! Bah.

[impactX]

How do you know what number you were?

By the time I looked for the group, it was at 1000053.

[sexyflanders]

Kutcher won.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/34252734.html#cutid1

[Durrann1984]

Twitter is getting crazy big

[Ludepower]

I dont get twitter...besides celebrities...are people lives that interesting for them to post every hour what they doing?

[+Kardboard+]

I dont get twitter...besides celebrities...are people lives that interesting for them to post every hour what they doing?

People who only post what they're doing and all that are missing out on what you can do with Twitter.

[unit]

who cares, ashton kutcher is a faggot

[penner2k]

I dont get twitter...besides celebrities...are people lives that interesting for them to post every hour what they doing?

You mean celebrities lives are more interesting?

[Ludepower]

You mean celebrities lives are more interesting?

I see wat you did there...why so serious?

[ASG111]

well.. let me just have some coles notes... wtf is twitter and what can you do with it?

[+Kardboard+]

well.. let me just have some coles notes... wtf is twitter and what can you do with it?
http://www.revscene.net/forums/showthread.php?t=566453&highlight=twitter