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In your face, moon landing! America has a new moment to cherish forever: April 17, 2009, at around 10 a.m. ET, Oprah Tweeted for the very first time.

Yes, the most powerful woman on the planet (save for Susan Boyle this week) has decided to participate in the popular microblog site Twitter, much to the delight of my mom and Ashton Kutcher (who would probably date my mom).

Her first Tweet was in all caps, Kanye-style: "HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY." And she quickly followed up about wanting a Reuben sandwich and vaccinating her puppy.

So far — sorry, Oprah — color us unimpressed. In order for the Big O to keep our Twitter attention, we've come up with 10 Tweets we'd looove to see posted on Oprah's Twitter account:

1. JOHN TRAVOOLLLLLLTLAAAAA!
2. My vajayjay be painin'.
3. @GayleKing last night was amazing don't tell Steadman let's go on another road trip k?
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Like most badass dudes, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way is looking to buy a Trans Am.

Unlike most badass dudes, he's taking to Twitter to find it.

Yes, citing the need for "research and exploration" (we're assuming for MCR's upcoming "raw" new album), Way is searching for a 1979 Pontiac Trans Am — "T-Tops a BIG Plus" — and he's begun posting a series of Tweets about his quest for the perfect muscle machine.

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You know it's bad when your nearly 70-year-old mom, who just recently got her first e-mail address, is asking you about "the Twitters." But while she's just discovering the micro-blogging widget of the minute, I'm already so fed up with it that I'm thinking of pulling the plug.

Why? Because some of you just won't stop! It doesn't matter if you're in the middle of an NBA game, watching President Obama address Congress, spying on your underwear-clad movie-star wife, interrupting tantric sex to tell us you're having tantric sex, zoning out of an MTV interview, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the #1 TV show during a commercial break or writing about being on Jimmy Kimmel's show while you're doing the show.

Seriously, focus at the task at hand, will ya? Especially you, Diddy.

Twitter was abuzz with artists Tweeting from the South by Southwest festival this weekend, but frankly, that's been covered pretty exhaustively just about everywhere, so we thought we'd start off the week with a bunch of other notable Tweets. (Note: While some of these accounts have been verified as legitimate by the artists' publicists, it is possible that some are not.) ...

Best back and forth: If you're not following them already, get onboard with @JonahHill, @realSethRogen, and @danecook. While their Twitters might crowd your Twitterspace, you'll hear them discuss enticing topics such as Matt Damon's allegedly bisexual cousin, Tonya Harding (always a perfectly appropriate topic) and watch them feed insults to each other that you've been craving since the last bro-tastic flick, "Pineapple Express."
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