Ashton Kutcher has beaten CNN.The 31-year-old actor, best known for "That 70s Show" and for marrying actress Demi Moore, 15 years his senior, became the first Twitter user — http://twitter.com/aplusk — to garner more than one million "followers" late Thursday evening.
For the past few days, he'd been locked in a race with CNN's breaking news feed — http://twitter.com/cnnbrk — to become the first "Twitter millionaire."
But just before midnight Thursday — or the wee hours of Friday morning on the East Coast — Kutcher's account edged over the line as he, Moore and some friends broadcast a Web stream of themselves watching the Twitter numbers.
Kutcher, Moore and friends erupted in cheers as his account topped the mark, and he popped a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
Kutcher earlier said he'd be donating 10,000 mosquito nets to the medical charity Malaria No More if he won. Just after his victory, he flashed a check made out to the charity for $100,000.
The video-game publisher Electronic Arts says the millionth follower, whoever he or she is, will become a character in the next version of "The Sims," as well as a copy of every game it publishes in 2009.
CNN on Tuesday declared it would match Kutcher's mosquito-net donation, win or lose.
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Kutcher is a tool.
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