O'Brien shakes his head at the memory. "Aaron's saying, 'You're up to 250,000' or something, and I would say, 'I don't know what that means.' " It meant that O'Brien was setting the single-day record for gathering followers on Twitter. Just as quickly, O'Brien's team began to hear that NBC was far from happy. "The network isn't crazy about you tweeting. They're not sure that's cool," O'Brien recalls being told. His response was simple: "Tell them I would be thrilled if they shut down my Twitter account. I'd love it if that got out. You think PR's been bad up till now? Wait till you take away my Twitter account."
Fortune digs into
Conan's digital rebirth after getting kicked off the 'Tonight Show.'
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Subscribe to commentswordgirlFeb 13th 2011 7:00AM
I love this quote. Conan was so down at that time, and this seems like the beginning of starting to bounce back. It's got to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience to think you have been run over by a truck, only to pick your head up off the pavement and realize that you are being lifted by thousands you never knew loved you. :) A big, decent heart and a string dance are a lot more valuable than once thought, ha. I hope that was the day I joined twitter. I've never done a tweet; don't have followers. The only reason I joined was to lend my support to that red-headed genius. :)