CNN bought most popular Twitter account (yes, for cash)
CNN gained nearly a million Twitter followers on Wednesday when it acquired the @cnnbrk Twitter account. The account, the largest on Twitter with more than 947,000 followers, had been maintained and nurtured by James Cox. CNN did not disclose financial details of the acquisition, probably because rules at the microblogging site prohibit the selling of Twitter accounts. The acquisition comes as the race to 1 million Twitter followers heats up. As of Wednesday afternoon, Ashton Kutcher was in second place with 917,000 followers, followed closely by Britney Spears, who has about 913,000 followers. Kutcher publicly challenged CNN to a race to 1 million users on Tuesday in a video posted to Qik.com.
“I found it astonishing that one person can actually have as big of a voice online as what an entire media company can on Twitter,” Kutcher said. “And so I just thought that was just kind of an amazing comment on the state of our media, and I said that, if I beat CNN to 1 million viewers, then I would ding-dong ditch Ted Turner–because I don’t think it’s gonna happen.” CNN accepted Kutcher’s challenge Tuesday on the “Larry King Show.” Kutcher, who is best known as star of TV’s “That ’70s Show” and husband of actress Demi Moore, has said he will donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day if he is first to 1 million followers.
Source: Cnet
Comments(20)
'has said he will donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day'
…..wow how generous!..that'll cost all of a 1000 dollars, what a self promoting twat.
Twatter is just for sad twats with no lives.
http://twitter.com/aplusk/status/1366791709 > anything CNN has to offer.
Someone botched this post
@cabbagehead. Why don't you donate the 10,000 nets?
what is twitter? social interwebbing like facebook?
anyway, this release contains a virus.
Come on people its harmless fun..
lets show that the corporate guys don't have all the weight in the world that they think they do…
Geez more attention to twatter.
It's about time to take that hype down, with all those companies acting up it's even more annoying than second life.
rs links pls!
Screw Twitter.. and Ashton too. I'm happy to say.. that I have NEVER viewed a single Facebook page, nor a MySpace page, I can count the number of YouTube videos I've watched on both hands.. and I could care less what famous or infamous people are doing when they're sitting on the can. I have this thing I'm involved in called "MY life".. I could care less about others.. except in a charitable sense. Which brings me to my original thought.. only 10,000 mosquito nets Ashton? Cheap bastard.. what's that cost you?.. about $10K?
Ted Turner gave his first billion dollar donation away.. in one shot.. almost before you were born Ashton!.. and since then.. he's given away more countless millions to charity. I hope CNN wins you putz.
Here comes the Twitter bubble… give me billions for producing nothing.
What a waste of money, CNN are suckers
twitter isn't all that bad. It's not as annoying as facebook or myspace. If you want to talk to people or just get to know someone without actually meeting them it can be good for that.
web 2.0, it's the way of the future, just embrace our imminent destruction.
I wonder what the secret gov would do if Ashton Kutcher started twitting to a million twitter about the 9-11 conspiracy or the UFO conspiracy or MK-ultra[CIA mind-control experiments] or tax tea parties.
Lol Cox
http://basementdad.webs.com
FOR AUSTRALIA
10000 bed nets equals 100.000 dollars not 1000 dollars
idiots !!!
Actually, they DIDN'T BUY the account at all.
They employed James Cox as a consultant and therefore gained control of it through him. It's subtle difference, but a difference nonetheless.
https://twitter.com/basementdad is who is going to win that ashely kuting guy sucks bruce willis is way better. and CNN? why have them win vote for basementdad go join he is getting 850+ followers a minute
Ashton Kutcher Won!!
I would ding-dong ditch Ted Turner , Funny
"They employed James Cox as a consultant"
Since They Lost James's Services Will Probobly No Longer Be Needed.
I wonder whether they would have used http://www.urlcut.com/RevTwt to get cash for their Twitter accounts, they would have been paid in massive amounts. It's totally crazy