News Report #5

"Twitter Race Between Ashton Kutcher and CNN Narrows"
By John D. Sutter
Thursday, April 16, 2009
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/16/ashton.cnn.twitter.battle/index.html

This article posted on cnn.com this morning by John Sutter, updates us on the supposed race between Ashton Kutcher and the CNN network to be the first to reach one million followers on Twitter. Twitter is the newest social network online and it is a little different from Facebook, MySpace, and the other networks that have taken over the web recently. Twitter allows people to constantly update their status and let anyone who wants to know exactly what they are doing and where they are doing it at any time of day. Your “followers” can read your status and comment on it and begin a conversation with you. Apparently people love knowing what Ashton Kutcher is up to in his daily life because he has over 900,000 followers on the site, more than any other individual on Twitter. The social network recently opened up to news broadcasts, such as CNN, to release up to the minute news to their followers.
I can’t believe Twitter is as popular as it is, and the fact that almost a million people want updates on Ashton Kutcher’s whereabouts absolutely amazes me. I have never considered making an account on Twitter, and to be honest I’m kind of done with the whole social network sites phase of my life. I haven’t logged on to my Facebook account in months, and I’m sure there are a few of my friends that are little irritated that haven’t responded to their wall post or wished them a happy birthday with a message. I just woke up one day and realized how much time I was wasting looking at pictures and reading statuses on Facebook everyday so I stopped doing it. And to be honest I haven’t missed it too much. I hope people who Twitter can have this same realization sometime soon and understand how ridiculous it is to know what their favorite celebrity is doing at every moment of every day.