Culture: Conan O’Brien’s leap to Twitter puts Jay Leno to shame
- 101,377 number of followers @ConanOBrien has – in just THREE HOURS; way to rally the troops, dude
- 30,061 number of followers @JayLeno has, which has been running since May and isn’t written by him
The pitch-perfect intro
- Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.
- Conan O’Brien • In his heavily-retweeted “Hello, World” to the Web. There was some question as to whether the account was initially real, but it now has a spankin’ “Verified Account” stamp on it. We wonder if this Twitter account is the suggestion of bigger things. You know, like a tour. source