UPDATE: We’ve done it! http://twitter.com/aplusk is the first to reach 1 million users. Here’s @aplusk’s tweet:”Victory is ours!!!!!!!!” and @cnnbrk’s tweets: “Congrats @aplusk. Ashton Kutcher is the first twitter account to reach 1MM followers.” and “Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.”

Not even CNN’s aggressive TV push could stop the Web from winning. So I guess you could say we Punk’d CNN Malaria no more!

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Here’s an excerpt from my CNET Asia blog post.

I’m on sick leave right now and feel pretty awful, but I have to be part of this historic Twitter faceoff for a charitable cause.

Follow actor Ashton Kutcher at http://twitter.com/aplusk and help make him the first get a million followers on Twitter. If he wins, he will donate 10,000 mosquito bed nets to charity for World Malaria Day, and 1,000 if he loses.

Read the full story and follow http://twitter.com/aplusk

Let’s make history!