Comments on: Ashton outmaneuvers CNN to 1 million on Twitter

Actor Ashton Kutcher outpaces CNN in a battle to be the first to 1 million Twitter followers. Some pegged it as a changing of the guard: old media to new media. Either way, it was fun.

[sjschaef]

Umm.. who cares? This goes along with Facebook and MySpace news... it only applies to people who use it. But really in this case, it doesn't really apply to anyone except CNN and Ashton. This isn't really news worthy.

I use Facebook to reconnect with old friends, found out about my upcoming high school reunion and share family pictures.. Other then that, I could care less about the minute to minute nuances of anyone's life.. much less that of overpaid celebrities and people with nothing better to do with their time.

[alpentalcharger]

....Yawn

[oldmanangry]

Thanks for the "news" news.com.

[HayesMyers]

Ashton Kutcher is boring anyway...and 1million viewers? Because he married a cougar? Please. Gotta love twitter...pure usa ingenuity. Really not much more needs to be said. To those that twitter..keep doing it.....do it more... i like those that waste their time...opens up more opportunity to those of us who aren't twits.

[t8]

I followed Ashton K to perhaps earn a prize for being the 1 millionth follower. How many others were bribed? Whatever, the is a lesson here regarding the way media is moving. Digital is the future and new was of connecting people with that media have been, and will be invented. Old school streaming of one signal per channel is 20th century. 21st century is about building your own channel of programs, games, social networks, and information, while accessing that content when you want on any device.
Who will be the 'first' to enable 'build your own channel'.

[t8]

Twitter helps the Internet to become greater than Big Brother.
Who would of thought that Big Brother would have tabs on what you did 20 minutes ago.

[Julie Allen]

What a frakkin stupid thing to celebrate. Lame ppl. unite and rejoice in your banal existence...pfft.

[J0di]

B-McGee what are you talking about? Shaq has given his location and actually told people to come meet him in public, not to mention he has posted many private/personal photos - you can scroll through them here - http://twitpic.com/2oth6. There is NO doubt it's the real Shaq. Yes, many people sign up falsely as a celeb and try to play it off, but who is really at fault there? The people doing it, or the people believing it? Kinda hard not to fault the fans when it is SO easy to tell whether they are fake or not. All the real celebs have posted NON-paparazzi photos, like in their home, or set up live chat, or like Tony Hawk and Lily Allen, leave gifts/tickets to people in public places and post locations on twitter. The benefits far outweigh the negatives.

[J0di]

B-McGee what are you talking about? Shaq has given his location and actually told people to come meet him in public, not to mention he has posted many private/personal photos - you can scroll through them here - http://twitpic.com/2oth6. There is NO doubt it's the real Shaq. Yes, many people sign up falsely as a celeb and try to play it off, but who is really at fault there? The people doing it, or the people believing it? Kinda hard not to fault the fans when it is SO easy to tell whether they are fake or not. All the real celebs have posted NON-paparazzi photos, like in their home, or set up live chat, or like Tony Hawk and Lily Allen, leave gifts/tickets to people in public places and post locations on twitter. The benefits far outweigh the negatives.

[Chiatzu]

I wonder if Kutcher captured the moment with his Nikon camera. There are valid reasons for the buzz over Twitter, such as instant notification of social news events/emergencies, or relevant links/comments from multiple sources to answer a hard to find question, so I can't say it's all a waste of time. 90% of it seems like mutual ego stroking and a lot of meaningless banter. That's fine in the context it belongs, but why does the media fall all over it and why does every celebrity have to get on the Twitter bandwagon to bang their drums to the clueless public? Maybe its fitting that a celebrity would be the one to get a million followers. Because maybe that's the context we should view it in - micro-celebrities thumbing their way to fame. CNN and the other networks didn't break into a live feed to Ashton because the news wasn't all that newsworthy.

[ark2612]

I have never been on Twiiter, but that's OK as I have nothing against people who choose to use it. However, I LOVE the comments on here about "people not having a life". HA! Hi Kettle this is Pot, "you're black".

[Xena2010]

The comments on here sound very resentful. Should I assume that all people on her commenting on here are techie geeks who were spurned in high school and are just jealous little twerps that feel better when they say that people on Twiiter have no life? I beg to differ. I can be any where in the wrold inside or out and post from my cell phone to communicate with family or friends and not be stuck in front of a stupid computer. For techie geeks you are sure uneducated in what Twitter even is.

The whole point of the whole deal was to raise awareness of http://malarianomore.net . He did more in one week to raise awareness than any whiner here probably has done in their lifetime. Seems the peeps on here spend too much time on Cnet and not enough socializing. Maybe you all need to get lives. High school is over.