Conan O’Brien Changes Woman’s Life Via Twitter

Sarah Killen follows many of her favorite celebrities on the social media network known as Twitter. It wasn’t until one of them decided to follow her back that her life was turned upside down. Former NBC talk show host Conan O’ Brien has over half a million followers on his Twitter account. But until recently he opted to not follow anyone at all. That was until he decided to follow one person at random. That random stranger was Michigan teenager Sarah Killen who became the one and only person O’Brien follows. In the course of 24 hours, Killen’s own Twitter, which consisted of three followers, exploded with over 150 new followers every minute. After one week of being the only person Conan O’Brien follows, her current amount of Twitter followers is over 20,000 and growing.

O’Brien’s choice of Sarah Killen was completely random. “I’ve decided to follow someone at random,” O’Brien’s posting read at 3:55 p.m. on Friday. “She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change.”

If anyone ever questioned the influence that social media has on our culture this is a great story of the power of the Internet. In less than one week Killen went from being an ordinary 19 year old planning her wedding to becoming an Internet sensation. She has received so much attention from this that websites, TV news stations, and newspapers are calling her for interviews (tomorrow she will appear on Good Morning America.) She recently received a new computer from someone in Florida who read her story. She now has a designer in New York who wants to give her a wedding dress and another follower who will be donating wine for her wedding.

These incredible acts of generosity have become headline news (this story was originally reported via Fox News) and since made headlines all over. Conan O’Brien recently joined Twitter after the cancellation of his gig as host of The Tonight Show. His Tweets are some of the funniest and most talked about humor on the net. The power of social media is a forced that can’t be reckoned with – and this goes to show how truly awesome and inspiring it can be.

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