The 25-year-old said: "I was doing a 6am shift at my work in a factory and I'd seen she'd tweeted something, I can't even remember what she tweeted now, but I just replied to ask if she ever noticed her fans.
"I didn't think anything of it and was walking to work and then my phone just started going ping ping ping and going crazy.
"I thought: "What the hell's happened?" and actually wondered if there had been a technological fault with my phone but then I saw hundreds and thousands of replies saying: "Congratulations, well done son".
"Kim had tweeted me back saying: "Love you too".
The social media star also has another account where he has 274,000 followers, meaning his total followers on the social media site is more than half a million followers.
In addition to his clothing plugs, he gets into clubs and given alcohol for free for tweeting about them.
Kim has a staggering 54 million followers and her single tweet to the starstruck man has allowed him to forge a new career.
Although he now works for Haven Holidays he soon hopes to concentrate full time on social media.
His celebrity followers include boxer Tyson Fury, 29, and X Factor winner Sam Bailey, 40.
He got into Keeping Up With The Kardashians five years ago and has always fancied social media star Kim, 36.
He said: 'I have had so many people reach out and offer sponsorship.
"Lad Bible and Boohooman wanted me to work for them.
"I did campaigns for E4's Tattoo Fixers, Primark's Christmas range, they'd sent me stuff and pay me almost £100 a tweet.
"I do that much on Twitter now I can barely keep up with it all.
"Considering I still live at home with my mum and stepdad, I feel it's not bad going."
- Daily Mail