We’ve all done it. We’re typing away on Twitter, meaning to send that private message to someone we know, when we accidently send it publicly. But when you are Charlie Sheen, that means sending the message out to over 5 million subscribers. What did he send out? His phone number.

The message was intended for his brother Emilio Estevez who he has become much more friendly with lately, even showing up at their movie premiere to support Estevez and their father Martin Sheen in their new movie, “The Way” In the tweet read around the world, he said ‘310-954-7277 Call Me Bro. C’. Once the short note went out, it hit the twittersphere like a storm, the phone number being retweeted over and over by others that had received it. By now he’s probably really inundated with fans trying to get a chance to talk to the tiger-blooded warlock and no doubt has taken it off the hook or got the number shut down. We tried it and it just went to a busy signal.

Getting the genie back in the bottle now is impossible. In fact, Twitter just announced that every single public tweet will be archived by the Library of Congress, so Charlie’s digits will be forever woven into the tapestry of cyberspace. I just hope when he gets a new number, that his phone service will retire it permanently so some poor soul doesn’t get it by accident and be forever hounded. I’m still trying to convince people that I am not the local bank who apparently had mine before I got it.

BTW, speaking of Twitter, Charlie Sheen’s #tigerblood was the second most trending hashtag of the year. Pretty impressive considering how many millions of hashtags there are. The first was Arab Spring’s #egypt in case you were wondering.