Twitter Challenge Update

As if this lame challenge to see who is more popular wages on there are new stakes in it for the millionth twitter follower of Ashton Kutcher.
In a recent video seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8AcfKGaEI, EA has said that for the millionth follower of Kutcher they will turn that person into a SIM for Sim's 3 and give them everygame they make in 2009 for the system of their choice. Making this more of a sweepstakes win than an actual contest to see who can reach the goal of 1 million followers first. Which is a complete advertising scheme for EA.
But in the end Ashton Kutcher beat CNN having 1 million followers before they did.
Opera even talked with Kutcher via Skype about this whole thing. And now Oprah has created a Twitter account. Now as anyone knows once Oprah talks about anhything on her show whether it be a book, movie or beauty product that item's buyers or users numbers soar. So I expect more women will be signing up for Twitter in the next month or so than ever before thanks to Oprah who makes anything she touches turn to gold.
One interesting concept Kutcher brough up during his interview with Oprah was that "people are so out of place with the social media where one person's voice can be as powerful as an entire news network which is the power of the social web."
I think this is part of the reason for the rise in social networking sites because people want a voice and to be heard and feel like they have something to say that maybe the news isn't covering or are seeing things from a viewpoint that the media isn't looking at. Now I don't think the way he did by getting people to follow him to beat CNN isn't really anything worthwhile and is somewhat dumb. But he does have a valid point about what our society is turning into.