So, inevitably, it happened. The heavyweight Twitter battle between Ashton Kutcher and CNN was close for a few rounds, but it ended with a loss for mainstream news, and a win for the guy from Punk’d. If you hadn’t heard, there was a race going on to see whether Ashton or CNN would be the first to reach a million followers on Twitter. This chart follows the action in real-time, and while you won’t be able to be there for the historic crossing of the million threshold, it still makes for compelling viewing.

As if that weren’t enough, the blogosphere, the tweetosphere and pretty much every other osphere you’d care to mention, are abuzz. According to this article, there have been rumblings from deep in the Tweet Cave that something big is afoot. Yesterday, Twitter founder Evan Williams posted the following: “Tomorrow just became a very big day (Sorry for the teaser – more later)”.

Speculation is rampant, with much of it pointing out the fact that the big day tease may be related to the fact that Oprah is doing a show on Twitter today. In fact, she’s apparently sending her first tweet as we speak. Her guest on the big show? Ashton Kutcher. I do wonder who exactly decided it would be good TV to have Oprah and Ashton both sitting on a couch madly sending tweets as fast as they can. And for that matter, who decided Ashton should be the official symbol for all things Twitter? For the life of me, I was sure he was busy being the symbol of a good, deeply entrenched Oedipal complex.