conantwitter.jpg In case you didn't already know, Conan O'Brien is on Twitter, and his followers seem to be growing at an exponential rate.

Over 250,000 fans have added the former NBC Tonight Show host, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, Conan got 1,000 followers a minute within the first three hours of signing up for the micro blogging service.

A bearded Conan posted a picture of himself with a monkey on his back and tweeted, "Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial. Somebody help me."

While having hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter may be comforting, it looks like Conan may be getting some serious revenge against Jay Leno sometime in the near future. While Roger Friedman reports that Conan and Fox are actively working on a deal, Conan is also in talks to take his show live to theaters across the country. It would make the comedian more appealing to Fox, and it seems like an announcement about Conan's latest projects could even upstage Jay Leno’s return to the Tonight Show next month. We'd love to see that!