…And the magazine’s cover story title was less than 140 characters! Hurrah!

Last week it was Michelle Obama.

This week, Time chose to highlight Evan Williams and Biz Stone of Twitter; bringing the web’s fave micro-blogging tool into the main stream spot light once again just after it got huge props from Oprah.

I’m sure Millions of Moms (excitedly exaggerated number) hopped on Twitter to follow the television talk show goddess’ tweets of wisdom.

Glossing over Twitter’s constant down time, Oprah and Time are two of North America’s most respected cultural pulse checks – and both have given Twitter the nod; proving the real-time, conversational web is live and well – and finally everyone is taking notice as to how these social technologies are changing our world.

I mean SRSLY… My Mom follows me on Twitter. Her first tweet “Look at me! I’m a Twit! LOL.”

Yes she LOL’s and yes, she’s awesome. If only she’d tweet more random thoughts – it’d certainly light up my day.

After all, as we all scratch our heads wondering how they’ll make money, this skyrocketing Silicon Valley startup phenomenon has, as Time says, created a social warmth in social media:

“We don’t think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask. The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn’t be taken lightly…”