"Social media: From the hot lists to the oil spill
Long ago, Conan O’Brien decided to follow only one person permanently for the rest of his Twitter days. The selection turned into a big publicity campaign. On March 5 he announced his decision, “I've decided to follow someone at random. She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change.” Indeed Killen became a famous Internet figure just minutes later he made the announcement. However, O’Brien realized that something was wrong when he had more than one person on his following list three days ago. He was very upset and said: “Twitter exploded today! I guess my dream of a world where Twitter runs our stock market, phones, and nuclear defense is still a ways off.”"
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