Buzz Watch: Ashton Kutcher Thinks Ted Turner Should Come On His Web TV Show

Authored by Jay Baage on April 14, 2009 - 12:31pm.

Ashton Kutcher is a pretty cool guy. First he manages to get almost as many followers on Twitter as CNN (almost 900K). Then he challenges CNN to a race to see who can get to 1 million followers first. If he wins, he'll ""ding dong ditch" Ted Turner's house. Then, proving he's web-savvy, he uploads a video to his Qik page (embedded above), providing the following thought:
"It's just astonishing that one person can actually have as much of a voice online as an entire company on Twitter," Kutcher says while he is driving a car. "I just thought it was an amazing comment on the state of our media."
As he is on video, his PR agent calls and says that Larry King wants him to come on his show and talk about the Twitter challenge with Ted Turner. Aston's response? Why should he come on CNN's old-media show to talk about his success with new media and give them more viewers? Ted Turner should come on his Qik show instead.
"We'll post it on Twitter," Kutcher says of the potential Turner appearance on Qik. "We'll get Ted Turner to call in."

Published in DMW Daily, April 14, 2009

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A Great Cause Too

Submitted by Wolfie (not verified) on April 15, 2009 - 11:30am.

First, he promised to "Ding-Dong-Ditch" Ted Turner's house if he got to a million first. Then, being the generous, social-minded human being that he is, offered to donate 1,000 net beds through Malaria No More. Now, not only will Ashton Kutcher make his donation regardless of the outcome of the race, everyone has a chance to make a difference, even those who don't use Twitter. A T-Shirt design is available at http://www.cafepress.com/bekajoth and 50% of the profits from every sale will be donated to Malaria No More. If every user purchases one shirt, it will raise at least $2 Million Dollars for a great cause.

Where did this all begin??? I think I might have slight clue

Submitted by Drew Burchfield (not verified) on April 17, 2009 - 9:57am.

This has been a fun scene to watch, but I have to say some of the Twitter community prior to this (Kevin & Alex, Diggnation etc) was on to the movement a year ago. I really like Lablogga here in Nashville. For two years it was a crazy video blog, but all of them had a useful message. For some reason the vlogs were removed and he is doing more written blogs about the social architecture within the music industry. Here is the link: http://www.Lablogga.com Drew