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by Linda Holmes

While you were (probably) asleep, Ashton Kutcher and CNN were finishing up their contest to see who could be first to get one million followers on Twitter — thus becoming the first ever to reach that point. Each party had agreed to donate 10,000 mosquito nets to battle malaria if they won, and 1,000 nets if they lost.

Oh, and Kutcher vowed to "ding-dong ditch" Ted Turner's house if he won — meaning ring the doorbell and run away. (Even though Ted Turner doesn't own CNN anymore, it's still pretty funny, mostly because the Punk'd co-creator would absolutely do it.)

In the above video, you can watch as Kutcher — who tweets as "@aplusk" — goes over the top before CNN.

Combine this with the fact that Oprah now has 62,000 people following her account despite not having written anything, and we are well through the looking glass here. Kutcher will reportedly appear on Oprah today, along with the founder of Twitter, to (we hope) discuss the fact that this is all really, really weird.

categories: Internet

5:14 - April 17, 2009

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