14 DAY TRIAL // At the end of last week, Conan O’Brien, also known as Coco to his fans, especially after the late night debacle with NBC and Jay Leno, joined the Twitterverse. In just hours after he did so, he had over 100,000 followers – and, judging by his most recent tweets and how hysterical they are, it’s no wonder he’s already closing in on half a million followers.
Conan is new to Twitter and he’s not making a secret of it. In fact, the few tweets he does have either try to send the message, loud and clear, that he knows he’s not doing a good job at tweeting but he’ll continue to do so, or are apparently nonsensical, words coming from pure whim that he just wanted to indulge. In one of them, he even says that he admired the likes of John Mayer for how he can keep this up since he’s already “exhausted.”
As if to prove his point, O’Brien also uploaded a photo of him and what looks like an entire army of assistants meant to help him work his way around the Twitter thing. Coco is barely seen in it, given that he’s hunched over his laptop, as if assiduously working on his next tweet. The “assistants” are all looking on, some of them with concerned or preoccupied faces, while others in the background are simply curious to see what he might be doing. “This is how many people it took to write today’s tweet: ‘Jumbo’ shrimp?” O’Brien writes in the tweet accompanying the photo.
Other tweets have been made as if following the “one tweet a day” rule and say as follows: “Today I connected all the freckles on my arm with a Sharpie. It spells out RIKSHAZ9LIRK. Clearly I am The Chosen One.” O’Brien returns the next day with a picture of a dusty Ford and the tweet, “Good news! I can now spend quality time with my vintage ‘92 Ford Taurus. Bad news – I left yogurt in the trunk.”
The next day, the former Tonight Show host realizes he might have overdone it with the whole social networking thing, saying, “This is only my 5th tweet and I’m already exhausted. My God, how does Ashton [Kutcher] do it?” Yet, somehow, O’Brien still finds the strength to return the second day and write, “If anyone’s curious what I look like with a beard, it’s this ?:^(0) Coincidentally, that’s also my ATM pin number.”