Conan O’Brien Follows One Random Person On Twitter, Rest Of Internet Worships New Golden Calf

Since Conan O’Brien started his Twitter account over a week ago, he’s quickly become one of the most popular users on the site, as fans took to the only outlet they can still get their daily CoCo fix from. But though Conan’s followers may have been numerous, the talk show host was following no one himself. That is, until yesterday’s #followfriday, when a teen named Sarah Killen (Twitter handle: LovelyButton) won the real-life equivalent of Willy Wonka’s Golden ticket by being randomly selected as Conan’s first Followee. Now she’s gone from 3 followers to over 11,000 in less than 24 hours.

Our favorite part is around the :45 second mark, where Sarah talks about all the free shwag she’s gotten by being the object of Conan’s Internet affections: an offer for a web cam and a new Macbook? Sent to her in less than a day? If that doesn’t show NBC how desperate some marketing companies are to still be associated with Conan’s brand, nothing will.

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