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Accidental Billionaire
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
"Looks like the Metal Sludge contingency has discover Twitter! Finally! For those of you that don't know what this is, please let me explain. Metal Sludge is the home of the absolutely worst people I've ever come across. It's populated mainly by unattractive plump females who publicly fantasize about having sex with guys in bands. Kind of like a role-playing game where people NOBODY will fuck make up stories about their incredible sexual encounters with people they WISH they could fuck."

http://www.metalsludge.tv/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=54

They are a bunch of fat groupies stalking Reznor. They talk about the penis size of the band members.

Read the article and study this. It's important.
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Accidental Billionaire
07/21/09

@Accidental Billionaire: A metal sludge "groupie"

It appears she has the embroidered silk jacket and the NIN poster in the back.
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sybann
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
well, poop. He was one of the more interesting Twitterers - now I am stuck with NPR hosts and Neil Gaiman. Not that that's bad...
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VoxPopuli
07/21/09

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Meh, good for him. I always thought Reznor was so angry in his music because he was venting his bottled-up emotions.

Being surrounded by people who are absorbing the anger and bouncing it right back at you sounds exhausting.
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skymotel
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
It was difficult for me to follow Trent, especially after "Pretty Hate Machine". I'd listen to his songs and think, "Trent, honey, why the anger? You can pay people to be angry for you now. Have a Bosco & milk, relax already."
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skahammer
07/21/09

@skymotel: If you're cribbing from a Robert Christgau review of a Cure album from the 1980s...then I say well done.
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raincoaster
07/21/09

@skymotel: Year Zero will show you that while your concept of him has remained static, his music has not.
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Smitros
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
So it didn't work out between Trent and Twitter. He didn't want to f*** it like an animal. It didn't bring him closer to God.
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Hydroceph
07/21/09

@Smitros: It's whole existence is, however, flawed.
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Hydroceph
07/21/09

@Hydroceph: It's, its, whatev's.

I'm so going to burn in grammar hell for that one, aren't i?
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DaeSu
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
Really Trent, aren't you a little old (and by old, I mean my age) to be getting into pissy arguments with depressive morons on Twitter anyway? Probably best for you to move on, and leave Twitter to the twits.
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overunderover
07/21/09

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I see that Mr. Self-Destruct himself has apparently found that something he thought he'd never have. And true that - he found himself "Closer" to his audience than he ever thought possible.
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Cheap Shot
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
"The reason no record label knows how to market anything to new media is they don't live there. They don't get it because they don't use it."

Best quote of Reznor's entry.
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Mount_Prion
07/21/09

In reply to Trent Reznor Abandons Twitter, Too
I hesitate to give Reznor or even Radiohead much credit for pioneering internet music distribution. DJ Rupture explains it pretty well in his post from when OiNK died. http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/defending-the-pig-oink-croaks/

Also, quitting potentially bad things hasn't worked out for Reznor. I mean, the second he gave up heroin his music sucked.
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m4ximusprim3
07/21/09

@Mount_Prion: Agreed on the first point. Even Harvey Danger beat both of them by at least a year with their free online album.

That being said, I totally disagree with you on #2. YZ in particular is one of my favorite albums in recent memory. YMMV
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raincoaster
07/09/09

In reply to Who's Abandoning Twitter?
If you look at Twitter user stats, Oprah is travelling a typical path. The only unusual thing is, she's famous, so everyone is watching. It's perfectly normal to start Twitter, do a lot the first day or first week, then let it drop off because you don't really see the point.

Until you follow 60-100 people, the twitter stream is just not interesting enough, on average, to HAVE a point. It's not about how many Follow you, it's about how many you are actually reading throughout the day.

MOST users sign on, try it for awhile, walk away, then go back to it because they NEED something, like to publicize an event or to find out news about a very current thing like an earthquake and they're frustrated with CNN. Dead typical. Oprah will be back, because she has to use the same account, because it's her actual name! She didnt' sign up as SkippyTheKlingon or whatever just to test it.

Also, great article on the NYT social media guru, for whose job I will be applying, here:

http://ow.ly/gSJL
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raincoaster
07/09/09

@raincoaster: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, who swiped the paragraph breaks?
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jasonelias
07/09/09

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Wow Oprah, that's really thrilling! Yep, I'm glad she's taking a break.
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twilt
07/09/09

In reply to Who's Abandoning Twitter?
Twitter has gotten too spammy too quicky.
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