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And Finally
Reznor explains twexit
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 31 July 2009
Trent Reznor has been discussing his decision to delete his Twitter account. As previously reported, the Nine Inch Nails man recently decided to take a step back from the social networking site, but after a brief return to regularly updating fans on it, he completely deleted his account earlier this month.
Writing on the Nine Inch Nails website, he said: “Yes, I deleted my account and I’ll explain why since somehow someone apparently thinks this is newsworthy. Twitter seemed like an interesting way to quickly reach a large number of people, and people that seem to exist outside of the nin.com world of fans. Then… around the time news broke of my engagement, a faction of troublemakers showed up whose sole intent was to disrupt, harass, insult and incite…In a reasonably moderated community, these people can be made to vanish – on Twitter, it’s a free-for-all – hence they flock there. It depresses me to think my art and life’s work can attract this kind of scum… if that was your intention you trolling, cowardly pigs – you’ve succeeded”.
