Exclusive: Student shocked by fame over Twitter link to Kanye West 
 
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 A TEENAGER catapulted to fame by megastar rapper Kanye West has spoken exclusively to the Coventry Telegraph about his bizarre moment in the spotlight. 
 
 Despite having nearly 400,000 followers on social networking website Twitter, American A-list celebrity West is following only one – 19-year-old Steve Holmes of Eastern Green. 
 
 West, an award-winning rapper and hip-hop producer, mysteriously selected Steve before sending him a message reading: “You are the chosen one. Dun dun dun.” 
 
 On Twitter, people who “follow” you – whether friends or strangers – can see updates you leave on your account, and if you follow them back you can exchange messages. 
 
 But since gaining the star’s seal of approval on Saturday night, student Steve has been inundated with admiring, jealous and strange messages from fans, journalists and wannabe celebrities across the globe. 
 
 He told the Coventry Telegraph: “I just commented on something on Kanye West’s account and next thing I know he’s following me. 
 
 “I was like, “Oh my God!”, but about 20 seconds later I had 20 messages from people I didn’t even know and my phone wouldn’t stop bleeping.” 
 
 In two hours Steve’s followers rocketed from 60 to more than 1,000. 
 
 To try and get some peace Steve deleted the Twitter application from his iPhone, but it hasn’t stopped people worldwide trying to track him down through other social networking sites, like Facebook. ||||| Ok, Conan, you're not such a bad guy, after all. We admit that for a while Friday we thought @LovelyButton was a figment of your Twitter imagination (read: Freckles and the gang), but now that we've actually spoken to her and have seen firsthand what a sweetie she is, we approve of your first and only Twitter pal. 
 
 This afternoon, we spoke with Sarah Faith Killen and her fiance, John D. Slowik, Jr., via Skype from their bedroom in Fowlerville, Mich., and we intended to share that video until we saw what an amateur job we did with that recording. So, we'll tell you the story because that's what we do best here at Show Tracker: tell stories. 
 
 Sarah, 19, and John, 21, will celebrate their third anniversary on March 13 and are getting married on Sept. 25. Before Friday, they had no idea how they were going to pull that off. He was recently laid off and she is a student. They live with his father now, but plan to soon get a place of their own and enroll in the University of Michigan. 
 
 Since @conanobrien announced she was his "random" Twitter pal designee, Sarah has been showered with presents and attention, going from three followers to 12,713 in 24 hours. Strangers have practically planned her entire wedding for her, and someone sent her a new Apple computer. That was Matt from the Florida-based company, Hornblasters, by the way, who came to the rescue with an I-Mac when Sarah's Webcam malfunctioned and it looked like she was going to have to cancel an MTV News interview via Skype Friday night. 
 
 When Show Tracker first contacted the very cute Sarah, she wanted nothing to do with us. She had interpreted our post about her as "negative" and she sent a polite but firm "No, thank you" to us. Then, when she realized that Show Tracker has been Twitter Tracking Conan, his freckles, Sharpie, Taurus, Monkey, Squirrel, and Beard, she saw for herself that Show Tracker is basically insane but harmless and she felt more at ease. As she told us, "People will try to take you down and I'm trying to avoid that." 
 
 She's a sharp cookie, that one. Maybe that's why Conan picked her and not us. ||||| When Conan O’Brien randomly started following Sarah Killen’s Twitter page (@LovelyButton) she got nearly 19,000 followers, a new iMac, a free wedding gown, gratis wedding rings, $2,600 in donations for her cancer walk, and the chance to meet Ludacris. In return, Sarah is inviting Conan to her wedding. “My fiance wants Conan to be his best man,” she said. “That would be really cool. And hey, if he wants us to come on his show, we’d get married on there. That would be fantastic.” Guess she’s not that big of a fan if she hasn’t heard that there isn’t a show anymore? [Gawker] 
 
 Twitter has done some crazy things to our world. Nerds have become popular and we know more about strangers than our closest friends thanks to the constant updates of their mundane thoughts. And it’s also set the celebrity world a bit topsy-turvy. Here are just a few of those who’ve been plucked from obscurity and thrust into Twitter greatness.
– The random woman Conan O’Brien decided to follow on Twitter got a new computer, donations to her cancer walk, and the wedding of her dreams. The random guy Kanye West decided to follow on Twitter just got…annoyed. “Before this weekend I thought it would be cool to have a celebrity following me on Twitter but now I think it’s really not worth it,” 19-year-old Steve Holmes tells the Coventry Telegraph. “It’s crazy. I’m getting messages from people I don’t even know.” His followers jumped from 60 to more than 6,000 and his iPhone “wouldn’t stop bleeping,” so he deleted the Twitter application from it. “A guy wanted me to look at his film trailer and people have been sending me links to their music demos—as if I have some sort of influence over Kanye West,” Holmes says. He’s turned down interviews with outlets including the BBC and CNN, and recently tweeted that he won’t be speaking to any more press.