Axl Rose Defeats Purpose Of Twitter With 766-Word Tweet Announcing New Management

Have you heard of TwitLonger? It's this Twitter application that allows you to write tweets longer than 140 characters. Great, right?

Well, not for anyone who follows Axl Rose. In his case, it just allows him to be an even bigger twit.

The Guns N' Roses frontman posted a 766-word tweet (that's Biblical length in the Twitterverse) on Tuesday (Feb. 16), in which he announced Guns N' Roses were now being managed by Doc McGhee, who's worked with Motley Crue, Bon Jovi and Hootie And The Blowfish, according to Rollingstone.com.

But then things went to hell as he decided to take aim at journalists ("mean spirited aholes," apparently) and went on about the Slash merchandise ban rumours, which he'd already addressed.

"Fabricated from a 2001 bs RS piece from Rock N' Rio. Bottom line Never happened, end of story. Fuck TMZ, ContactMusic, Spinner (I got ur attitude.)," he wrote about the rumours.

"Fuck the LA Times, TMZ, Contact Music n' Spinner. I don't need 'forgiven' for alleged n' fabricated nonsense. I've no respect for mean spirited aholes gettin' paid talkin' shit at other's expense or irresponsible biased partisan politics wanna be journalism by dated hacks. Go on! Back ur boy! But when he says he never killed no one that ain't exactly true. Yeah, that's right, stone cold.

"So if we happen to play your neighborhood or for that matter anywhere at anytime regardless of the circumstances, presales, public sales, give aways, even free shows consider yourself uninvited. It's a free country but you're formally n' publicly not welcome.

"Bottom line is we ain't makin' efforts to rain on ur parade why piss on or take cheap shots at r's. Oh that's rt...how u make ur livin's all that counts not others, whatever. U ain't above anyone regardless of who or what corporation u work for n' unfortunately most of u'll get to learn that the hard way."

Rose also says he hasn't been going on late at Guns N' Roses shows, despite CHARTattack's Ian Gormely reporting GN'R took the stage two-and-a-half hours after they were supposed to during their recent Toronto show.

"Based on set change etc. went on [in Toronto] 1 hour 8mins late w/circumstances beyond r control n' last minute physical injuries from earlier performances (which took that hour to find ways to deal with) n' could have cancelled the performance not 'hrs'," he wrote. "Apologies were made. If u have a problem w/any of that or especially if u weren't there fuck off."

Axl, have you heard of these things called blogs? They're online web diaries that allow you to post really long entries and rant about things that are bothering you, which would make much more sense than posting a 766-word entry on a website that's supposed stick to 140-character updates.

Here is what Rose needed to do. One simple tweet, saying the following:

"On another note Guns is now managed by Doc McGhee n' we're off to a fun start. Big welcomes! It's nice to have the support!!"

That's less than 140 characters, certainly isn't 766 words, isn't a blog entry in its own right and makes sure we don't have to constantly hear him ranting about the media, people who don't appreciate him and Slash, which is what he always does anyway.

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