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I lost respect for Ashton after the thing a few days ago where he released the "Aplusk twitter app" with the tag line "...my latest creation..." and it's just another app rebranded. Seems he's just selling his name now.


Donald Trump does that all the time with properties, this is just the Internet version of that.


being an internet version of Donald Trump is not something I would aspire to


Who has respect for Donald Trump?


Donald Trump.


People who buy his books?


I have more respect for Donald Trump than Mark Cuban.


It used to be the other way around for me, until I saw him on Shark Tank (where he just came off as a huge bully).


Which app?


I think citricsquid is referring to this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/ashton-kutcher-twitter-app/


Might have just been copy Demand Media wrote for him.


This is funny on so many levels.




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