The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof is either in on our earlier joke about Jack Bauer, or is facing some rough times.

After tweeting earlier today that fictional character Jack Bauer should be arrested for torture, Kristof followed up:

Help! Jack Bauer saw my tweet about him. He's pounding on my door! He's got a waterboard and a gleam in his eye.

Another UPDATE: It looks as though Jack might have gotten to Kristof. The Timesman tweets:

I love Jack Bauer. I take back what I said about arresting him. Just put down those instruments, Jack.

George Stephanopoulos tweets:

Coming Up on 'This Week': White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and GOP House Minority Leader John Boehner http://tinyurl.com/chrms3

Oprah shoots back:

george thats a promo not a tweet.

BAM!

ABC's "This Week" moderator George Stephanopoulos is a little jealous of actor Ashton Kutcher, it seems.

Kutcher, who won CNN's Twitter challenge, is apparently drawing more host from Stephanopoulos's wife, Ali Wentworth, than the newsman himself.

Stephanopoulos tweeted Friday:

Wishing my wife would follow me instead of Ashton!

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof potentially made a big mistake Friday, tweeting that federal authorities should arrest Jack Bauer.

After the release of the Bush administration Office of Legal Counsel's so-called "torture memos," Kristof tweeted:

I read the torture memos and thought of how the TV show '24' served as PR agent for torture. So: Arrest Jack Bauer!

Of course, authorities have tried to capture Bauer a number of times throughout the history of the show. Arrest attempts usually result in the following scenes:

Twitter has officially become newsworthy. CNN just sent out this "Breaking News" email:

-- Ashton Kutcher is first to reach 1 million followers in Twitter contest with CNN.

Needing an MRI - Cindy McCain
David Corn intuits the news - Mary Katharine Ham
Indian Lane's impressive journalism - Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.)
Voters 'correcting' Dem control? - Kevin Madden
Obscene! - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Great town hall at Ft. Hood - Admiral Mike Mullen
Team AFG 2010 - Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
Mainstreaming the militia - David Sirota
Weather obeys me - Atrios
What Hillary Clinton owes Mark Penn - Karen Tumulty (Time)

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is letting Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) know in no uncertain terms how he feels about Perry's assertion that Texas could invoke the 10th amendment.

Kristof tweeted Thursday:

Gov. Perry talking about Texas seceding from the Union because of taxes! It's official: he's nuts!

Cuban-American Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) is speaking at a Florida school's career week, tweeting her nostalgia in a mixture of Spanish and English.

She tweeted Thursday:

At kinloch middle school: will speak to students on career wk. Had no idea that I would b in cong when I was en la escuela. One never knows.

In an easily understood cognate, "en la escuela" means "in the school" when translated to English.

David All Group's own David All alerted us to this interesting nugget of information Thursday: three of the McCain family's most public members are now on Twitter.

All tweeted Thursday:

Typical. AFTER the election (almost) the entire McCain fam decides to get on Twitter for realz. @Cindyhm1 @McCainBloggette @SenJohnMcCain

The senator and Meghan are arguably the more famous Twitter users, especially compared to the typically more reserved would-be First Lady, Cindy.