Kutcher: New White House Twit… Tweet
This will undoubtedly bring much honor, respect, and dignity to The White House and the office…
If you’re a regular reader of Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter feed (and you very well may be, as the actor and prankster has over 2.5 million followers), you may have done a double take when he tweeted on Sunday that the White House had asked him to help get the word out about National HIV Testing Day.
“I’ve been asked by the white house to twet this” wrote Kutcher, who provided a link to a White House blog post and accompanying video noting the 14th commemoration of National HIV Testing Day. Turns out: Kutcher wasn’t lying. The White House confirmed that it did, in fact, seek Kutcher’s help in promoting the blog post.
While I do occasionally tweet out selected B&R posts, I don’t do so enough to realize how important Ashton Kutcher is on Twitter. As I am not one of the two-and-a-half million, I am clearly out-of-the-loop and quite content in my pop culture isolation.
As for the collaboration, you’re only as good as the company you keep, and that goes both ways.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:14 am
“If you’re a regular reader of Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter feed (and you very well may be, as the actor and prankster has over 2.5 million followers)”
I read the book of Revelation and that is one of the severn signs!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:16 am
CORRECTION: “Seven” signs! Apologies for my mediocre grammatical errors.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:30 am
Ashton should have been, could have been VP. About as much experience, and surely as much notoriety, as was the candidate Obama nd his Veep Biden. Ashton and Demi 2012!
Kill me now.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I must be in good company, Bob, as I don’t Twitter, Tweet, or could give a rats rear end about Ashton Kutcher.
I don’t use my camera phone (I have a REAL GOOD dSLR for that!), don’t have GPS (I can read a friggin’ map, fercryinoutloud!), don’t know who’s been seen partying with whom, nor do I even bother to look at anything the MSM puts out.
Does that make me old-fashioned? YOU BET.
We are surrounded by an Axis of Weasels. Sigh. As Trishmac pointed out, “kill me now”…
June 30th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Who?
June 30th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
No Twitter or tweeting here either Bob, feel the world is going to hell in a hand cart and no one is watching out for reality because they’re on their blackberries and laptops and cellphones all the time. Younger generation doesn’t have to interact with people as much anymore, it’s scary!
June 30th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@Igor – Amen brother!
June 30th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Yay, more of this “spreading awareness”. Celebrities only like doing that because 1) it really doesn’t require much work to do, and 2) it makes them feel good about themselves.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Somehow we’ve been transported to an evil parallel universe.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
i dont’ have a problem with asshton tweeting or twating.
he can do what he likes afaic.
the problem i have is with the 2.5 million dumbasses that lap up his drivel.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Seconding the amen at Igor and Trishmac, too!
BTW, anyone else notice “poor” people have Wii, TiVo, the latest phones, etc.? Earlier this year, one of the Detroit stations had an “action” segment about a heating and cooling company that replaced the furnace for an unfortunate family who couldn’t afford to fix it. They showed the family wearing winter coats in their livingroom – playing PS2 games on their enormous TV (it was bigger than their sofa). Seemed like someone should introduce them to a pawnshop.