@aplusk Billboards in Baton Rouge

If you haven’t heard about the Ashton Kutcher vs CNN Twitter follow challenge by now, then it’s highly likely that you’ve been living under a rock. It’s been on literally every news venue (except, of course, this one—until now) since Kutcher first made the promise of ding-dong ditching CNN-founder and media visionary Ted Turner’s house a week ago. Last night, Kutcher finally broke 1 million. Despite what this means to social media and Twitter (*insert polemic here), last night during the race we received word of mysterious “Follow Ashton Kutcher” billboards going up around the city. From what we can tell, this also happened elsewhere around the country. Lamar Digital, the subsidiary of Lamar Advertising that manages their electronic billboards, said they put them up of their own accord. You can see on their Twitter stream how they were reaching out to help: “@aplusk Hey man we got your back! 1100 Billboards nationwide that can reach over 36 million people. Hope it helps!” That’s a really impressive statistic. In their stream are pics of the billboards across the country. Below are two links to the ones in Baton Rouge. Enjoy.

From @lamardigital: http://twitpic.com/3gdnb
From @lsugurl: http://twitpic.com/3gale

(*Polemic starts now: Which, by the way, this whole thing really has nothing to do with Kutcher. It’s cool that it happened to him and that he was the first and is donating things to charity and whatnot, but honestly, I wouldn’t have picked him. Listening to him stream live last night after he broke it made it extremely apparent that he really has no idea what’s going on and why this revolution is important. Listen to him: he’s saying the same thing over and over again and, at that, he’s just speaking in platitudes. I’m excited about what this means for the future of social media, but, again, this has nothing to do with Kutcher. I just think that needs to be made painfully obvious, because people don’t seem to realize that. Oh, and I also think it’s ridiculous that his 1 millionth follower was someone who joined Twitter last night and—wait for it—hasn’t even posted a tweet yet! This thing has gotten out of hand.) [Disclaimer: This, of course, is my own opinion and doesn't reflect any official stance of @btrblog. This is @lleger's words only.]