| Ashton Kutcher Hits 1 Million Twitter Followers
April 17, 2009 at 2:16 am
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|   Have no doubt: TwitterTwitter reviews 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. |
| Kutcher Plays His Pied Piper Flute And Gets A Million Twitter Followers
April 17, 2009 at 2:13 am
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|   The first man in space. The first man on the moon. The first man with a million Twitter followers. Yes, this is one of those great achievements in human history. Congratulations Ashton Kutcher. 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, Demi Moore, were adding thousands of followers a day. They would talk about nothing, like everyone else on Twitter, and sometimes they would talk about each other. It's a true web success story. |
| I Can't Believe I Am Now Following Ashton Kutcher on Twitter (Because CNN Just Cannot Win)
April 17, 2009 at 1:36 am
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|   The race is getting close as midnight nears on the West coast.
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| T-Mobile Sidekick LX officially announced all over again
April 16, 2009 at 11:57 pm
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|   Sound familiar? Indeed, this isn't the first time T-Mobile has offered a Sidekick LX -- but much like last year's simply-named Sidekick, the carrier is once again carrying forward branding while totally revamping the hardware. The 2009 edition of the Sidekick LX is thoroughly new and pretty much nails every item on every Sidekick fan's wishlist: GPS, 3G data, an absolutely glorious 3.2-inch full wide VGA display, and super-tight integration with Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. You've also got a 3.2 megapixel AF camera with LED flash, microSD expansion (T-Mobile throws a 1GB card in the box), video recording and playback (including YouTube access), stereo Bluetooth, quadband EDGE, and HSDPA 2100 for high-speed coverage when you're galavanting around Europe. |
| Three Tips For Sorting Through Facebook's Noise
April 16, 2009 at 9:54 pm
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|   When Facebook redesigned the look and feel of its site last month, the social network took some design cues from Twitter, the service that allows users to share short messages with their friends, family and colleagues. Twitter has been referred to as a "streaming" application; since updates occur in real-time, it causes a river of content to flow down the center of users' home pages. |
| Kutcher Surges Past CNN On Twitter — But You Can't Unfollow Either
April 16, 2009 at 9:37 pm
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|  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 2009 and a role in its Sims 3 game. And now Kutcher is offering to buy 10,000 bed nets to help stop the spread of malaria in Africa if he wins. CNN has also pledged to buy bed nets, win or lose. |
| TwitPub aims to bring marketplace to Twitter
April 16, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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|   TwitPub has set up shop as a Twitter marketplace - that is, a place where you can, say, sell horoscopes or stock tips on Twitter and make money from Twitter users who subscribe to your offering. TwitPub calls these subscriptions "premium tweets." All you need to get started is a private Twitter account or an account that has its updates protected. From there, you sign up for a TwitPub account, and the service automates the process of subscribing through its website. You get to choose the subscription rate for your new service. |
| Gmail Fails; Find Out About It In 30 Minutes On Twitter
April 16, 2009 at 5:56 pm
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|  It's not a good afternoon for the Internet; at least for the portion of it that I spend a good bit of my time on. GmailGmail reviews, my email program of choice, went down for a good hour, leaving me unable to send messages or chat with my GoogleGoogle reviews contacts. Meanwhile, TwitterTwitter reviews, usually a reliable medium for finding out if it's "just me" or the Internet at-large, is once again running on a significant delay both on your friend's timeline and in Twitter Search, meaning that discussion of the Gmail outage – which now appears to be widespread – didn't surface for about 30 minutes. |
| Psst...Twitter Has Big News. And It's Top-Secret
April 16, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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|  Twitter's traffic is shooting through the roof right now -- a recent Comscore report finds the site's U.S. usage more than doubled in March, jumping a full 131 percent from the previous month -- and now, the service's founders seem to have some sort of surprise up their sleeves. So what's the big secret? |
| Excel-Lookalike Twitter Client Helps You Goof Off At Work
April 16, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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|   For a full-featured Twitter client, we like TweetDeck. But if we had a real job -- something other than tech journalist, where we're obliged to goof off on Twitter at the office -- we'd use Spreadtweet. The premise behind Spreadtweet is simple: The interface looks just like a Excel spreadsheet, and the casual passer-by will probably be fooled into thinking it's real, actual work. Even the "dock" icon is a dead ringer for Microsoft's (MSFT) Excel icon. |
| Tinker.com livestreams Kutcher vs. CNN race to a million
April 16, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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|  You can't get more meta than a site that micro-blogs trends in micro-blogging. But we're through the looking glass anyway, so here goes - Tinker.com, part of the distinguished Glam Media Network, is live streaming the Twitter race to a million followers between Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) and CNN (@cnnbrk). |
| Should Twitter Remove Its Follower Count?
April 16, 2009 at 2:27 pm
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|  Over the past few days, actor Ashton Kutcher has been racing CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. Kutcher and other parties like EA have been pulling out all the stops to help his account gain followers as quickly as possible to hit the number. Clearly, this is a game - and really, gaining followers on Twitter, for most people, is a game. Which raises the question: Should Twitter just remove the follower counts? |
| Operation Basement Dad: How 4Chan Could Beat CNN & Ashton Kutcher
April 16, 2009 at 1:38 pm
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|   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. |
| Want To Watch the Media Hug Twitter In Real-Time? This Is The Site For You
April 16, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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|  So why is Twitter growing so fast, anyway? Bunch of reasons. But one of them is that the media - from lil' ol' bloggers like me to the most mainstream of mainstream media - keep promoting it, for free, via non-stop coverage. Most obvious example: CNN's decision to cede much of its airtime to a stunt involving Larry King and Ashton Kutcher, who are having some kind of follower contest which you can read about somewhere else. | 
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