No, Conan Is Not Joining Revision3

Last night, the internet (mostly Twitter) was abuzz with the news. Conan O'Brian was joining internet content channel Revision3, home of Kevin Rose's Diggnation, Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont's Tekzilla and other popular shows. Or was he buying it?
Well, it's actually neither, as Brian Brushwood confirmed to Leo Laporte last night on TwiT Live at the Digg Shindigg event
Brian and the hosts of the NSFW show, as part of the Diggnation pre-show, encouraged the audience to join them in a Twitter hoax. Attendees were told to tweet that Conan O'Brien was joining Revision3 and to use hashtag #omgconan. Within minutes, hundreds of tweets were flooding Twitter with this very information. The tweets quickly morphed into claims that Conan appeared live on stage and announced the news himself or that the news media had called Conan and confirmed the news.
Perhaps as some sort of weird internet karma, shortly after the hoax was underway, Brian dropped his iPhone and broke the screen.

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