TV star Ashton Kutcher may have more followers than all but 5 other people on Twitter (6,393,559) but he apparently has at least one snarky and politically minded adversary at the prestigious TED conference this week. Kutcher's account on Twitter appears to have been compromised this afternoon, having posted two messages purportedly from someone else nearby. How excited will the stars Twitter seeks to get onboard be when they find out how easy it is for strangers to hijack their identities? Probably not very excited! 
 
 "Ashton, you've been Punk'd," the first of two Tweets read. "This account is not secure. Dude, where's my SSL?" SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is a security measure that many people have called on Twitter and Facebook to enable by default. "P.S. This is for those young protesters around the world who deserve not to have their Facebook & Twitter accounts hacked like this. #SSL," read the next message. Update: It's been 4 hours now and it's getting harder to believe that Kutcher hasn't heard about this yet. He hasn't deleted those tweets or tweeted anything else since. It's odd. ||||| Ashton Kutcher is one of the most popular users on Twitter, now with 6.3 million followers. 
 
 Only five accounts have more followers, but Kutcher's account was hacked today at TED, RWW reported this evening. 
 
 The hack appears to have taken place over a local network at TED by someone nearby Kutcher. RWW noted it was "particularly humorous," but also embarrassing for Twitter, and speculated it could hurt the social network: 
 
 How excited will the stars Twitter seeks to get onboard be when they find out how easy it is for strangers to hijack their identities? Probably not very excited! 
 
 The two tweets following the hack were, "Ashton, you've been Punk'd. This account is not secure. Dude, where's my SSL?" and "P.S. This is for those young protesters around the world who deserve not to have their Facebook & Twitter accounts hacked like this. #SSL" 
 
 The tweets were posted to his account @aplusk on Wednesday evening and were still on his page as of 8:50 p.m. Eastern Time (screenshot below). 
 
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– It remains to be seen whether his offline following will boost him past the Ashton Kutchers of the Twittersphere, but the Dalai Lama is well on his way after opening his Twitter account today. With @DalaiLama, the Tibetan spiritual leader is nearing 100,000 (to Kutcher’s 4.5 million)—though he laughed at the original suggestion from founder Evan Williams in a meeting yesterday. No actual tweets from his holiness yet, however.