Disintermediation: Ashton Kutcher Beats CNN to the Millionth Follower on Twitter

By • Apr 17th, 2009 • Category: 26th Story, Weblogs

In case you haven’t followed the story, CNN and Ashton Kutcher were neck and neck in followers on Twitter the other day, so Ashton Kutcher challenged CNN to a race. He said if he got one million followers before CNN, he would buy 10,000 mosquito nets from Malaria No More for the children of Africa.

If you haven’t followed along, you must go back and watch the videos of Ashton and Larry King.

Who would have thought, even a year ago, that an individual person could have a larger audience than an entire major cable news network station.

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  • http://twitter.com/chapmanchapman Ryan

    I think this was a hilarious idea, though the terms of the bet were odd – why use charity as a prize? Wouldn’t CNN want to lose, then, so that 10,000 kids received mosquito nets?

  • http://southernsinfulbliss.com c.a. Marks

    Yeah, probably because he cheated somehow. I tried to go UNFOLLOW him (I had a weak moment and started following him about a month ago) and I get errors, continually! I can UNFOLLOW other folks, but not him. I’m aggravated.

  • http://www.lyved.com Andrew Galasetti

    This doesn’t have anything to do with this post, but I thought I’d stop by a drop off a link you might be interested in:

    http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/new-books-who-is-mark-twain-24-previously-unpublished-stories-essays

    -Andrew

  • http://theharperstudio.com Katie

    Thanks for the link, Andrew!

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