What made you think it was big deal to start with? ;) - Robert

meh, that's so last-week. ;p - Andrei M. Marinescu

Nice of her to follow at least 11 of them - Patrik Johansson

Was it ever a bfd? - phil baumann

If it was someone actually participating then yeah it'd be a big deal. But Oprah? not really. Its impressive if someone shoots some video on a Flip and posts it on Vimeo and gets a million views. But a million people watching CSI? not so much - William Kapes

It's like collecting grains of sand. - Todd Hoff

Maybe if she followed half of them back it would be a story. - Kenya

In other news, Dog bite Man - Big K

I agree with @kenyaoa, would be news if she followed back and joined in the conversation. For Oprah, twitter is just another bullhorn. - Jon Winters

Cause she is only following 11 people out a million. Just shows how stuck on her self she is. - orionstarr

Orion, Twitter makes that very hard for someone like that. We have a few accounts like that on SocialToo, and Twitter only returns follower data for them 1 in every 30 times, and even then gives huge problems. And then there's the "you can only follow 1,000 people per day" issue Twitter causes. Oprah would never ever be able to follow all those following her at the rate they are following her. - Jesse Stay

Actually she got most of those followers NOT because she's Oprah, but simply because she is on the recommended follower list. That's why this is not a big deal. If you get a million organically on Twitter that STILL is a very big deal. Only a handful of people have gotten to 100,000 organically. Twitter really screwed up the importance of follower numbers. - Robert Scoble

It stopped becoming a big deal when the web celebs were getting SMOKED by tv/movie celebs - Jeff Smith

What's different about her Twitter stream than a press release or her website? That's another thing that bugs me about these celebrities on Twitter. - Trish R

Jeff: that's actually not true. The reason they are smoking us is because of the recommended follower list. Mike Arrington had fewer followers than I did before he got put on that list. Today he has 500,000 just a couple of months later. - Robert Scoble

it just seems twitter has changed, celebs use it because it is a fad i feel. When twitter to me used to mean direct communication with people of all types. celebs or not. right? - orionstarr

Yesterday I was watching some news network the anchor was like... I need to get my twitter up and tweet. It was just kind of pathetic IMO. - orionstarr

yeah, getting organic followes of 1M is a graet achievement. But, the pity is that they are back into the pits..as the person is on a one way tweetstreet.. some foo diffierent media - Peter Dawson

TechCrunch wrote about it... ha - Elliott Klug

But, if you don't follow her, you don't see her tweets assuming there are any, and a news piece like this, if indeed it really is news in the real sense of the word, is the only way you get hear about it, what's the big deal? And apologies for the overly long sentence there. - Gilbert Harding from BuddyFeed

Thanks for the credit MG :) - Benjamin Golub

Best just to block Oprah. - Thomas Hawk

Hurray. So. Any real important things happening in the world? ;) - Ruud van Wijngaarden

sort of like twitter being down now, not breaking news on. - carolynn kutz

Totally agree with Jeff Smith, but to be fair, the web celebs got right back to where they were here on Friendfeed, so there's no use crying about it, is there;-)? - Brandon Mendelson

Gilbert: in Twitter search you see everyone, including spammers, bad actors, and celebrities and you can't remove any of the above. To me Twitter search is more important now than the people I'm following. - Robert Scoble

Agree with Robert. As I followed more people and got used to "noise", I find Twitter search very interesting because I can "shape" the streams I'm looking for. - phil baumann

Ari - 2? - phil baumann

TechCrunch head Twitter writer MG has a story about Oprah passing 1 m Twitter followers. - Allen Stern

No big deal!! its the big O so what - Jose Luis Santos

Big O Nothin'. - Rudy Amid

Its all about 1 Billion Followers now! - Nicholas James

@techcrunch posted a blog about it today. - Jason Pollock

Wow, she follows all of 11 people. - Mike Roberts

meh - Giancarlo Caparo

Thats 24,000 followers for every update she's posted. I think i have the inverse ratio! - Jamie Vidamour

Robert Scoble: I totally agree with you on that. But the whole follower race got a lot less talk once the tv/film celebs showed up. I remember on TWIT it was always a point of conversation, who was where in the rankings. But once Twitter blew up on the celeb front that talk quickly died. I think it was you who said it best though, it's quality not quantity. I'd never be able to have this debate with Oprah, but you're still part of the community. Even with 80K + followers. - Jeff Smith

Yes and I agree with Jeff Smith, not to mention Oprah would have to quit her day job if she were to actually weed through those one million in search of the non-spamming, non-auto DMing, actual daily users of twitter. Quality is definitely harder to find than quantity in followers. - Shelly Gullen

No it's not a big deal for someone with the media power of Oprah, but it would be a huge deal if you were one of the 11 she's following! - Fred von Graf

For celebs this just another tool to get "their" message out. Could have been an email list as well. Twitter and the social applications are meant for two-way, community conversations (at least some of the time). Twitters that are just pushing out links to press releases or blog postins are using the tool for their own prurpose, not the community. Follow if you wish. Right now there is not much of a conversation. - Elwin Witzke

Is anyone surprised about Oprah having 1 million Twitter followers? I am not in the least. What would you expect? - Lester Greenberg

She should follow more people. Discussion anyone? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

It's in keeping with the short attention span that Twitter fosters; yesterday's news, moving on. - Paul Chaney

I wish there was a dislike button because I would click it. - Gabe Diaz

She doesn't really post anything useful in her updates and she doesn't update that often. Maybe that's why? - Kimberly Cooley

Is a million really that many? show me a trillion followers and I'll be impressed. - j1m

Robert :" in Twitter search you see everyone, including spammers, bad actors, and celebrities and you can't remove any of the above." True. You can't help but see everything in a Google web search either. But you don't have to go to and read all the results. You the user are selective. Sometimes that's easy, and sometimes it isn't. These discussions about Twitter and it's users, celebrities or otherwise, are bordering on the "we're better than you are" territory. Are we? Really? - Gilbert Harding

Gilbert: wrong. In Google I have a choice to click the next page. In Twitter? I can't separate out the good stuff from the bad stuff on http://search.twitter.com -- in real time search you've got to have metadata to be able to filter. Twitter doesn't have it. Friendfeed does. - Robert Scoble

Good for Friendfeed Robert, but the metadata is in your head. Sometimes you just have to use it. - Gilbert Harding

Gilbert: very funny, but it's very easy to demonstrate how crappy Twitter's search is and how full of spam it is. You'll get there someday when you're trying to find a tweet you know exists and you can't get back to it. Then you'll remember what I told you about metadata and you'll come here and find that tweet. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Just making a point. Sometimes with all this technology at our disposal we forget to use our brains. Twitter search may be rubbish, I haven't had occasion to use it much, and I reckon it's a fair bet a large percentage of user haven't either. It's a transient medium, you're there, then you're somewhere else. I don't think it was ever meant to be anything else. How long do they keep tweets in the database? Do you know that? How long do Friendfeed keep data? - Gilbert Harding

Gilbert: I know you haven't used it much. If you had you wouldn't be so obstinate. Friendfeed keeps its data forever. Twitter search hasn't, though. I guarantee you can't find this tweet about the Chinese Earthquake from a year ago on Twitter search. It shows right up in friendfeed, though. http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Gilbert: even better, try doing this search on Twitter. Not possible. http://friendfeed.com/search... Notice how this item shows up in the search, too. Noise exists even on friendfeed but compare to Twitter and you'll see a lot less noise here. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Thanks for that, I'm getting some good pointers to using FF efficiently. Search is one of those areas I don't go into much and I am gradually building a database of personal FAQ's. Item: Use Friendfeed to search Twitter. Cool. - Gilbert Harding

Not when Ashton Kutcher has 1.7mil followers - Got80s

because 10 million is the new 1 million. - Baturalp Torun

Let's see see Ashton Driving the Boat and Oprah on the Water skis. And, Ron Howard puts this together. Cameo by Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli. - carolynn kutz

It's no big deal because that's just Oprah's typical audience. Yawn - Kathryn Martyn

is it a random number or real followers .. - Nayan