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BEST OF 2011: Our favourite artists on Twitter

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2011 5:00 pm
The year is winding down, which means that year-end lists are winding up. Without further ado, here are our favourite artist twitters of 2011, selected by CHARTattack's devoted team of contributors, presented in no particular order. Who did we miss?:... Patrick Stickles: @titus_ndronicus Despite starting this account just a few months...
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Danko Jones Twitter Feuds With Chris Brown Fan Club

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By Aaron Brophy (CHARTattack) February 10, 2011 5:57 pm
Yesterday while we were sitting around playing Gran Turismo 5, the caramel panther of rock 'n' roll, Danko Jones, was deep in a Twitter war with some people who appear to be the last living Chris Brown supporters.The feud started on Tuesday with this tweet from Jones about Brown being booked to perform on Saturday Night Live: "Dear SNL, Instead of...
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16th Annual Year-End Readers' Poll - Stupidest Trend

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) December 8, 2010 10:23 am
#7 The Follow The Herd Award (Stupidest Trend)online surveys Next Question: #8 The Thank You Much—Ly Award 2010 (Best Video)
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I Read The News Today... For July 28, 2010

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) July 28, 2010 1:10 pm
Win Butler says he will "forever give" Bono "credit" for "engaging with George W. Bush when he was president," no matter how much people slag the U2 frontman. We're less concerned about Bono as we are this codified endorsement of GWB by an "indie rocker." —NME Kanye West might hate Twitter with...
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U2's The Edge, Bono and Adam Clayton (Photo by Richard Beland)

Kanye West Doesn't Hate Twitter Anymore

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 28, 2010 12:59 pm
You might remember that last year, there was a fake Kanye West Twitter, which irked the rapper quite a bit. You might also remember he called Twitter itself "IRRESPONSIBLE" and "DECEITFUL" for supposedly letting someone pose as him and run a fake account. He even demanded they delete it.  In addition to that, you might...
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Axl Rose Defeats Purpose Of Twitter With 766-Word Tweet Announcing New Management

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 17, 2010 3:06 pm
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 (...
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Trent Reznor Back On Twitter... Again

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) October 21, 2009 10:34 am
Trent Reznor has resurrected his Twitter account to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine. "Happy birthday, old friend. Pretty Hate Machine turns 20," Reznor tweeted Tuesday night. Reznor left Twitter in June because he was being drowned in haterade from "idiots" from the Metal...
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Reznor Explains Twitter Breakup

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 31, 2009 10:58 am
Trent Reznor has broken his silence on deleting his Twitter. Reznor's reasons are basically the same as last time, when he said he had stopped using social networking tools because Metal Sludge people had found him and were making him miserable. "Yes, I deleted my account and I'll explain why since somehow someone apparently thinks this is...
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Kid Rock Hates Twitter

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) July 30, 2009 11:52 am
You won't find Kid Rock trash-tweeting his fellow musicians. That's because he hates Twitter, and as he told Rolling Stone, "It's gay." "If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I'm going to tell them, 'Twitter this shit, motherfucker,'" said the rap-rocker born Robert James Ritchie. "I don't have anything to...
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Trent Reznor Deletes Twitter Account

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 21, 2009 11:00 am
Trent Reznor has officially left the social networking world and has deleted his Twitter. If you visit what used to be the Nine Inch Nails frontman's page, you now get an error message from Twitter telling you the page no longer exists. Whatever, he probably has a new account under another name somewhere. Reznor announced he was quitting...
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Trent Reznor Back On Twitter

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) June 23, 2009 3:40 pm
Even Trent Reznor can't resist the allure of Web 2.0. The Nine Inch Nails frontman is back on Twitter, despite having announced on the NIN message board less than two weeks ago that he was disappointed with the microblogging site and would be signing off all online communities. The man who claimed "idiots rule" on social networking...
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Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor (Photo by Richard Beland)

Trent Reznor Hates Twitter, Metal Sludge

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 11, 2009 10:36 am
Trent Reznor has given up his Twitter account and says he'll stop using other social networking sites, too, because, as he says in a post on the Nine Inch Nails forum, "idiots rule." The twits he is referring to are from the Metal Sludge world. Metal Sludge is a website which features a groupie section where female fans "discuss...
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Sloan Twitters New Song

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) June 2, 2009 12:36 pm
Sloan have been fairly active when it comes to their Twitter, but were demanding they get 1,000 followers. "No SlnVdOFThDY (Sloan Video Of The Day), or SlnSngOfThDy (Sloan Song Of The Day) until we hit 1000 followers," the band wrote on Friday. "Don't want to do this, but you people have to learn somehow." Minutes later, they posted a message...
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Kanye West Hates Twitter

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By Bianca Marcus (CHARTattack) May 13, 2009 3:50 pm
Kanye West continued to wear out his caps lock key in a Wednesday blog entry that lashes out at Twitter and a user that the rapper says is Tweeting under his name. West calls Twitter "IRRESPONSIBLE" and "DECEITFUL" for supposedly permitting an imposter to use his name as an on-screen identity and demands that the social...
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Bloc Party, Usher Part Of Twestival

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By CHARTattack Staff February 5, 2009 1:01 pm
Bloc Party, David Usher, The Rakes and Mystery Jets have donated songs to be streamed online to help raise money for Twitter's global charity, Twestival. Imogen Heap, Bonde Do Role, Howard Jones and The Young Punx are among the other acts who've donated more than 160 songs that can be streamed at Twestival.fm in exchange for a donation to...
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