Conan O’Brien decides to make random Twitter follower, Sarah Killen, famous

Conan O’Brien is re-emerging after the Tonight Show debacle. He’s producing a new show for NBC and recently joined Twitter to much fanfare. Within less that two weeks, he picked up half a million followers. But he was following no one.

That changed today.

O’Brien chose one of his followers at random. He decided on Sarah Killen, a.k.a. LovelyButton. She is from Michigan. Her Twitter bio says:

“I love to have smile and have fun in life. I think that anyone and anything can be forgiven and we should all just love and be.”

Says Conan:

Killen is honored, tweeting back at him: “Having a lame ass day, Russell Bigos is an idiot. And Conan O’Brien is THE SHIT.”

I’m proud to be her 3,511th follower. I hope she invites Conan to her upcoming wedding.

Update: MTV interviews Killen by webcam (in the new computer a company has bought for her as a promotional stunt).

Sarah Killen, a.k.a. LovelyButton

Killen tells MTV that Conan’s crew asked via MySpace message for permission to follow her on Twitter. She’s loving it so far. But the downside of her new Twitter fame is that her behavior is now being scrutinized and criticized by thousands.

“People start to pick you apart. Like if I spell something wrong, everyone jumps down your throat,” she says. Speaking of criticism, is the weird dude with her in the video her future husband?

As for whether Conan is getting an invitation to the wedding:

And when that wedding does happen, Killen wouldn’t mind having a certain freckled member among the guests. “We were only going to invite like twenty people, so if he came, it could be as big as he wanted. He could bring anyone he wanted. He could have more people there than I do.”

via EXCLUSIVE: Conan O’Brien’s First Twitter Friend Sarah Killen Speaks To MTV News! » MTV Newsroom.