To some people, Twitter is kind of like a popularity game — getting loads of followers is half of the site’s meaning.
Not for Sarah Killen, though, who until yesterday happily tweeted away to just three other people under the alias @LovelyButton.
Then this happened:
Yes, Conan O’Brien decided to follow her (probably because her most-recent tweet was ‘Conan O’Brien is THE SHIT’).
She’s gone from three followers to over 10,000. She’s gone from worrying about how to pay for wedding invites, to getting freebies offered to her. She tweets about going to the Apple store and getting rear-ended, and then about how kind everyone is because they asked if she was okay. Almost $1,000 has been donated by strangers to her Cancer Walk team.
But I suspect she’s also tweeted about some things she wishes she hadn’t. One of her recent tweets is “I hate how careful I have to be” followed by “I keep forgetting that there are actually people reading this now” and “That was extremely stupid of me to say. Magic eraser please?”
Like the best of Conan’s humour, I can’t decide if this was a kindness or a cruelty. It’s somewhat both.
Grant Hamilton
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