Ashton Kutcher has become the first member of Twitter to have over one million followers.

Surrounded by his wife, Demi Moore , Soleil Moon Frye and Sean “Diddy” Combs supporting him via phone, the star officially crossed the one million mark, beating out rival CNN Breaking News shortly after 11 PM Pacific time.

Surrounded by Punky Brewster?

Yay!  One million followers!  So now you have 1 million people that you don’t know watching you online.  And you get to type no more than 140 characters to tell them whatever’s on your mind that day.  Yes, I’m on twitter.  You can follow me on twitter.   But I run a website.  And still, I have no idea what the point to twitter is.

Isn’t this just a modern form of chain emailing?  Isn’t this just forwarding links?  Isn’t it microblogging?  I guess it’s all of these things.  But since the way the world is moving, no one really cares to realize or point out these facts.

It’s just we see something that’s quick, easy, and 100% invasive into personal privacy and we jump at the thing.  Sure you can post cool links and what not on there.  But can’t you just send that stuff to friends?

Why send it to 1 million people unless, again, you own a website and are trying to spread the word?  I understand it for business purposes but for anything else it just seems completely lame.

And since I don’t write 5 pages articles I have no desire to substantiate any of this right now but will happily take any questions.  Thanks

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