socialmedian: Thanks to Oprah, we can finally stop talking about Twitter

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Thanks to Oprah, we can finally stop talking about Twitter

Source: VentureBeat

Apr 17, 2009

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Today may very well be the end of an era. Actor Ashton Kutcher, the first man to reach 1 million Twitter followers, and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams are going on The Oprah Winfrey show today to talk about the microblogging service, and it looks like Winfrey has started tweeting (and is already approaching 120,000 followers).

I’ve been keeping my head down during most of the furor around Kutcher’s successful attempt to beat CNN breaking news to 1 million followers. Not that I’m above celebrity news or anything, but I just prefer my celebrities to be more obviously talented, entertainingly messed up, or both. But now that the whole boring story is approaching its climax, I’ve realized that it may be more significant than I first thought — just as being featured on the cover of Time Magazine means that a fad has probably peaked, I think an appearance on Oprah means an emerging tech trend is officially over. Not that Twitter won’t continue growing (obviously, Oprah is going to bringing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, more members to the site, just as she

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