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Kanye West is anti-social, doesn't use Twitter

Kanye West has posted an all caps rant on his blog decrying the abomination that is someone pretending to be him on Twitter to Twitter's founders.

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Computing | by C.K. Sample III | Wed May 13, 2009 9:44AM | 3 comments

What do you do when you're a mega-rich music star and someone starts impersonating you on Twitter? 

Why, you flip out, start screaming in all caps (for those of you who don't know, ALL CAPS TYPING IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING in online chat rooms, forums, and elsewhere), and generally act like a complete brat. At least, that's the way Kanye rolls. 

See his full rant posted on his blog in which he calls out "THE HEADS OF TWITTER" multiple times and insults everyone who uses Twitter by implying that we're not as hard at work as he is: "I'M ACTUALLY SLOW DELIVERING CONTENT BECAUSE I'M TOO BUSY ACTUALLY BUSY BEING CREATIVE MOST OF THE TIME AND IF I'M NOT AND I'M JUST LAYING ON A BEACH I WOULDN'T TELL THE WORLD. EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF."

Twitter closed down the fake Kanye account, which is good, I suppose, but couldn't West have just had his publicist politely reach out to the Twitter people? Does he really need more press?

Dear Kanye: Relax. Don't resort to letting your CAPS LOCK key talk for you, no matter how loud it may be. You pay people to talk for you in these instances, so let them do their jobs. Also, learn to multitask.

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C.K. Sample III external link (9:46 AM on Wed May 13, 2009)

By the way, "BUSY ACTUALLY BUSY BEING CREATIVE MOST OF THE TIME" is awesome.

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Anonymous (3:09 PM on Wed May 27, 2009)

I agree with Kanye. Twitter is a waste. Last thing I'd be doing on a beach having fun, is be connected to the net.

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Mario (8:59 PM on Thu Jun 4, 2009)

Leave Kanye alone. He's not bitter about twits of twitter!

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