Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed on Oprah this past week to discuss the Startup:Education foundation. Zuckerberg is donating $100 million to the public school system in Newark, New Jersey. “Education has always been important to me and my family,” stated Zuckerberg. “Newark has unfortunately become a symbol of public education’s failure—of a status quo that accepts schools that don’t succeed.” Below is an interview he did with Oprah about the donation.

Twitter has received coverage on Stephen Colbert and on Oprah.  Apparently Oprah is loving the promotional possibilities of Twitter so she had Biz Stone come to her company Harpo and give a “creative seminar” to the production team.

Stone tweeted out that he was “At HARPO in Chicago to deliver ‘creative seminar’ to the production team before they go on summer break — this place is awesome.” Perhaps we may see Twitter have more of a presence on Oprah’s show after Stone’s seminar such as how to interact with Oprah’s audience watching from home using the micro-blogging service.

If that is the case, I’m sure that we’ll find out soon.  More coverage on this later on if something interesting comes out of the seminar.

[via BusinessInsider]

In less than a month of joining Twitter, TV spokeswoman and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey has accumulated over 1 million followers.  About a month ago, Oprah discussed Twitter with Ashton Kutcher, the first user to hit one million followers and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.

Oprah has been updating pretty regularly too. She wrote about 45 updates since joining on April 17th.  Most of her updates revolve around who is appearing on her show.  Recently Oprah spoke did a commencement speech at Duke University as her god son graduated from there.  “Speaking at Duke Graduation in a few minutes. Streaming Live on Oprah.com,” she tweeted.

Twitter has a recommended personalities section to add for users when they first join the micro-blogging service.  Oprah has become one of those recommended personalities.  For the celebrities that are on Twitter, the company decided to hire a VIP Concierge.  Back in March, Jason Calacanis offered Twitter $250,000 to the company for making his company Mahalo a suggested user.

Oprah has been making updates on Twitter mostly through the web.  The web is the standard place for users that don’t update much on Twitter.  Many people prefer to update through Twitter-related software on their mobile devices or using the Adobe AIR application TweetDeck.