Twitter at 1 Million Marathon: Ashton Kutcher 1. CNN 0.

 I wrote this blog :All aTwitter: Ashton Kutcher vs. CNN for 1millionth Follower - @aplusk wins! earlier and posted it on my WordPress site. I surfed the net, read a few blogs and figured I'd add more observations...

There were tons of reactions to this social media event and many of us got quite a charge defending/disparaging the drama swirling around Ashton Kutcher , Anderson Cooper and CNN. Nevertheless, it was definitely an exciting race and the energy was quite palpable....

For me, I presume for you too, it was difficult to feign complete indifference because it ignited that deep-seated passionate response we reserve for things we either admire or abhor.

I was a witness to the marathon for the millionth tweeple last night and to Oprah Winfrey's first tweets this morning; it was all so surreal! How did this - tell me what you’re doing in 140 characters - company that Jack, Evan and Biz built create such frenzy? I thought Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and more … how far technology has come...

Follow-up: I Twitter, Therefore I am not a Twit but a Savvy Chick!

My initial foray into the world of Twitter or "twittering" was started with some degree of trepidation and confusion about this popular medium of social digital communication. I had reservations because it simply did not strike me as an effective way to hold quick chats; something, I believed, instant messaging was purported to do quite well for the attention-span-of-a-gnat crowd.

What was the method to this madness of sending out seemingly random thoughts? What compelled total strangers to share the inane contents of the short-circuits popping off their brains? Why was "everyone" catching the wave of dispensing with much flourish, their @whatever twitter handles at the drop of a hat with the exhortation - " tweet me?"
I was curious and wanted logical not pat answers to my questions. So I signed up anyway because some of my friends, people I love and respect, were on it, loving it, and regaling me with stories about how some elusive marketing/business/creative/ridiculously successful whiz had just responded to their tweets and was now a follower and vise versa.