14 DAY TRIAL // Twitter, the micro-blogging site, is becoming increasingly popular with celebrities, two of the most active stars in the twitterverse being actor Ashton Kutcher and wife Demi Moore. In fact, Kutcher is so active and popular on Twitter that he has just managed to set a new record – that of reaching 1 million followers and defeating CNN in the process, as Yahoo! News can confirm.
Ashton himself launched the competition against CNN, saying that whoever would win the competition should pledge money to the “Malaria No More” charity, money that would then be used to buy mosquito nets. The target was set at 1 million followers, which Kutcher managed to reach before CNN, in what he deemed a victory of the people over the establishment in a post early this morning.
“The star of the television series ‘That ‘70s Show’ and husband of actress Demi Moore defeated the news channel in a race on the micro-blogging service that promised a large charitable donation from the winner, but was laden with social significance. Kutcher, whose Twitter handle is @aplusk, had nearly 2,000 followers more than CNN on the micro-blogging site when he reached the one million mark in the early hours of the morning. In a live webstream as he neared the winning post, the actor – sporting an upturned Panama hat – described the race as the ‘establishment’ versus ‘we the people’.” Yahoo! informs.
Keeping true to his promise that he would donate 10,000 mosquito nets to fight malaria, in the same webstream, the actor can be seen holding a check for $100,000 that he will donate to the “Malaria No More” organization specifically for this purpose, the same media outlet says. In accomplishing this feat and donating for a cause, Ashton joins his wife in doing good deeds via Twitter.
Just recently, Demi Moore helped save a life when she passed on the message an unknown woman left her that she was going to kill herself. Concerned, the star retweeted the message and, this way, word got to the police, who were able to locate the alleged suicidal woman before she harmed herself.