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BREAKING: Conan O'Brien Has Tweeted a Tweet!

By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | February 25, 2010 | +

When Conan O’Brien was being defenestrated by NBC in the Jaypocalypse, Twitter came loudly to his defense. And now Conan O’Brien—of Twitter Tracker fame—has come to Twitter! Yesterday, O’Brien debuted a Twitter account with a single (as of this writing) tweet:

Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me.

Less than 24 hours later, he has nearly 250,000 followers. (Jay Leno, by comparison: 30,000. Jimmy Fallon crushes them both, at two and a half mil.) I would counsel O’Brien to stop at one tweet, and thus go for the highest tweet-to-follower ratio in cyberspace.

But I have the feeling he’s not going to be able to throw out quips from unemployment. As his bio says, “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” Progress!

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  • beerbaron

    Oh, OK. I heard that Conan was tweeting and kept wondering why he would take Barney Frank out to lunch.

  • Rorschach

    I’m shocked that even 30,000 Leno fans know what Twitter is. Are there twitter apps for rotary phones now? #oldpeopleburns

  • rosseau

    Did you write about Craig Ferguson joining Twitter a couple of weeks back? If you didn’t, Craig Ferguson joined Twitter a couple of weeks back. He has somewhere around 100,000 followers. The other night he did an homage to the late Tom Snyder by having no audience, no jokes, and one guest, Stephen Fry, for the whole show. The conversation was erudite, funny and a real, natural flowing conversation between two people with very interesting pasts, and not an interview.

  • shara says

    FYI its now up to 288,060 followers!

  • Rorschach

    I have it DVR’d, I’ve heard it’s amazing.

    CraigyFerg is the handle for those interested

  • sulliclm

    Pretty amazing the difference between those two twitter feeds. Jay clearly is not writing his own tweets, its his PR department since half the tweets are in the third person. Meanwhile, Conan can produce comedy gold from his cell phone keypad

  • rosseau

    @Rorschach: Watch it! It’s like two very smart old friends talking about themselves and the world. You will learn a very interesting thing about Fry that you didn’t know before (well, if you didn’t know much about him). The whole thing is like good dinner table conversation with the wine flowing and very at ease and intimate. They bounce around topics very naturally. No PR, no plugs, every talk show should be this way.

  • Rorschach

    Saw it last night. He needs to make that a monthly feature, I loved it. I’m a big fan of Fry’s which probably made it even better, but I thought it was great TV.

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