Oprah starts 'tweeting'; Ashton Kutcher beats CNN to million count on Twitter

It appears that Twitter's popularity is just soaring all the more with Ashton Kutcher becoming the first user to have over a million followers yesterday, while high-profile media mogul Oprah Winfrey dedicated a full episode today of her talk show to discuss the micro-blogging phenomenon.

Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) defeated cable network CNN on Thursday to become the first Twitter user with more than 1 million followers.

In his victory speech, Kutcher said, "We can and will create our media. We can and will broadcast our media. We can and will censor our own media ourselves. We are over a million."

On the show, Oprah created her first Twitter account.

“HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY,” Oprah wrote in her first “tweet”.

Oprah worked the tweeted to her that her cocker spaniel would be getting a rabies shot and she was in the mood to eat a reuben sandwich.