Ashton Kutcher vs. Larry King

Twitterdome!!!

Holy crap, you guys.  It is on.  Like Donkey and Diddy Kong.

For those of you who are still trying to figure out Facebook, after having dragged your asses over from Friendster to Myspace, Twitter is the latest craze.  Take Facebook… and get rid of the applications and photo albums and detailed personal information… and you have Twitter.

Twitter allows you to tell everyone who is “Following” you what you’re doing.  In 140 characters. or less.  It is really really stupid.  I’ve been on Twitter for a few months now and I have yet to figure out why it is that Soleil Moon Frye (moonfrye) thinks it’s so fun.  Excuse me Ms. Brewster?  Punky?  I DON’T GET IT!!!!

So here’s what’s going on in the Twitterverse.  (That’s what they call it!  You guys are so square.)

Ashton Kutcher (aplusk in the Twitterverse) has issued a challenge to CNN (I don’t know which CNN profile Kutcher is battling.  It could be cnn (which has about 61,000 Followers) or cnnbrk (which has more than 928,000 Followers) or larrykcolumn (which only has about 5,100 Followers).)  I am currently following all of them, because as a journalist, it is imperative that I remain impartial.  Heh.

So, if Kutcher beats CNN to one million followers on Twitter, he says he will “ding dong ditch” Ted Turner’s house in Atlanta and post the video of it… yep… on Twitter.

Seriously.  That just happened.

Larry King, after pointing out that Ted Turner doesn’t own CNN anymore, said “Bring it on, bitch!   CNN will bury you!”  (He only said the last part.) Uh oh, Ashton.  I think you just reanimated Larry King:

Oh, Twitter.  You’re so pointless.   I mean really.  140 character status updates are only going to lend themselves to the further degradation of the English language.  And I, for one, do not want to live in a world where one can string letters together and call them words.  “Omg!  ur vids R so kewl!”

::blows head off::

Psst!  ((If you want to “follow me,” I’m StopthemadnessS… (yes, three esses because some punkass done stole my name).)

Heh.

UPDATE: Larry King (kingsthing) is on Twitter with almost 5,300 people now.  Good luck, Mr. King.   Ashton now has over 875,000 Followers.  Lemmings!