Celebrities love Twitter, right? Just look around, Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, P Diddy — they won’t shut up on it or about it. But not every celebrity loves it. Take hip hop artist Kanye West, for example. Apparently mad about people pretending to be him on Twitter, he went on a Peter Finch-style rant today on his blog about the service.
He specifically calls out the “heads of Twitter” a few times. Let’s see if @ev @biz and @jack are listening. (Update: yup) – Hopefully, he doesn’t have the caps keylock on for nothing. Here’s what he had to say:
(This spaz comes courtesy of losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts) I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER… WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I’M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE. 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. THE PEOPLE AT TWITTER KNOW I DON’T HAVE A FUCKING TWITTER SO FOR THEM TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO POSE AS ME AND ACCUMULATE OVER A MILLION NAMES IS IRRESPONSIBLE AND DECEITFUL TO THERE FAITHFUL USERS. REPEAT… THE HEADS OF TWITTER KNEW I DIDN’T HAVE A TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO KNOW WHICH ACCOUNTS HAVE HIGH ACTIVITY ON THEM. IT’S A FUCKING FARCE AND IT MAKES ME QUESTION WHAT OTHER SO CALLED CELEBRITY TWITTERS ARE ACTUALLY REAL OR FAKE. HEY TWITTER, TAKE THE SO CALLED KANYE WEST TWITTER DOWN NOW …. WHY? … BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!
[thanks Auston]
The South Park episode is classic – this guy is completely insane. Do you like Fish Sticks Kanye?
I dont want to put my life on the web as well. Its reasonable.
Twitcrunch
Good job Kanye….
May be if all the techcrunch readers stop commenting on twitter post .. MG might stop writing … and for that I request the first user who come across twitter post .. should write the first comment “Do not comment on twitter post… We dont want anymore twitter crap….”
Yeah. Best of luck with that. Good use of time.
Twitter deserves those words, that too in CAPS.
Love it Kanye. Of course, when someone is relaxing, cutting himself or herself out of the world, why would he or she tweet about the beach they’re lying on? If the heads know it, they shouldn’t hesitate to remove such fake accounts.
I think they are hesitating because there maybe too many fake accounts and they may lose millions of users if they delete/ban such accounts.
@Truth -
I don’t think you get it man…
TechCrunch is a blog designed to keep up with tech trends. I bet you’ll never guess what’s on fire right now? Twitter, more specifically, the fact that celebrities are eating Twitter up.
Hey Kanye, just hire some intern to post marketing stuff, like Britney does. Of just post pictures of your girlfriends behind like aston.
Tech trends writter by some dude parodying the actor who played Mike Teevee in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory…
Paris Themmom…guess that was how.
I dont want to put my life on the web as well. Its reasonable.
Twitcrunch
Your in LA and your going with the Rockets tonight?
Dude I feel like kissing you. I can’t stand the Lakers
If people are posing as Kanye, he has every right to request that Twitter remove the imposter profiles. His name is his brand and its understandable why he is so upset.
Anyone who feels he is immature or out of line for requesting this abuse to stop does not know a thing about business.
My $0.02…
Perhaps, but Kanye is an arrogant little bitch, so there’s no sympathy here.
True guys! And he is the worst of the B-kind that he tries to create buzz out of Twitter (which is already used celebrities to gain users). This is Celebrity-using-Twitter in a different way
You’re right, I mean, after all, EVERYTHING is illegal about celebrity impersonators and parody artists… What’s next, Elvis impersonators BEFORE the King was dead?
i agree
he is a brand and he has a right to keep it that way….no he is not a bitch…the real bitches are the fools who let this happen
No, he’s not a bitch ’cause he hates Twitter. He’s a bitch ’cause he doesn’t understand the difference between “there” and “their”.
@Ben: WIN! Maximum grammar pwnage. And yes, he’s a bitch, anyroad. Why fight the fake Twitter accounts? Why not embrace them and enjoy them?
Coke did that with their most popular Facebook fan page. They could have sued the responsible gentlemen from LA, but instead, they invited them out to ATL, took them to a Thrashers game (oh, joy), and befriended them. And they are letting the page run without interference. Coke was just showin’ some love.
Kanye, on the other hand, was out-sung on his own song by an American Idol contestant. I’d be sore, too, were I a raging (emphasis on raging) narcissist with a singing talent equal to the basketball talent of the Sacramento Kings.
@ben & @b3n
yes! I thought I might have been the only one who noticed that, but I’m glad I’m not.
I’ve read similar rants from him posted on Rolling Stone (ALSO ALL IN CAPS) and I’m not impressed.
I tell you what, this is another Twitter way to create buzz. If Kutcher did it favoring Twitter, Kanye does it not-favoring it. Or is Kanye being paid by Twitter’s competitor’s to say it? Why is he unnecessarily angry in public? He could have conveyed this to the heads in private and get his fake account removed. This is why I doubt.
Btw, how many followers does Kanye have?
he actually did say he was humbled by that episode and had a less douchy post on his blog and i respect him for that. He’s a great artist and he’s right this time as well…..web or real life, using his or another celebs name to get followers is really lame.
also he always uses caps lock in his blog post. I’m not ashamed to say I’ve read his blog multiple times
“great artist”?
I guess art is subjective after all.
LOLz, whats bitchboy
LOLz, whata bitchboy
Hey Kayne: Do you like fishdicks?
Fishdicks?
Only if they are stupid and fried in deep silliness,,,
Have to get out there. My “career” has been going down and down. Any publicity is good, bro.
I”M FU%KING KANYE WEST
I’M A GEEEEEEEEENIIIIIUUUUS
THE HEADS OF TWITTER KNEW I DIDN’T HAVE A TWITTER
I KNOW THAT
BECAUSE
I’M A GEEEEEEEEENIIIIIUUUUS
hello
I’d say Lionel Richie but I can’t come up with a stupid Beatles joke.
There goes my shot at inviting him to jamwee.com …. oh well. Why did you guys have to piss him off?
Get over it Kanye.
“EVERYTHING THAT TWITTER OFFERS I NEED LESS OF”
Beautifully said. He should have left it at that. That tells the whole story in a simple line. And I couldn’t agree with him more.
If you value your privacy boycott Twitter. If you value the concept of privacy, boycott Twitter.
But you won’t you vanity starved droids. You love your Twitter like you love your mirror.
I just enjoy making connections with other people on Twitter… so I don’t know where you are coming from
Mom isn’t enough anymore?
get out of your moms basement and connect with real people in real life…
I enjoy it like you do! the same ppl who say boycott it if you love ur privacy are the ones on myspace and facebook and have blogs and websites wit all kind of info hackers can still from them! We can chose what we keep private and what we choose to share! in this day and age no ones life is private!
Are you stalking us?
Call tha G-men, dogg.
Dammit, HUD moved my quote down tha street.
So, the ones that don’t want to use Twitter boycott it… and the ones that do want to use Twitter don’t boycott it.
You sir, are a fucking genius… and I mean that in the sense that if being a genius is synonymous with being a complete idiot.
If you value our time (and yours), please fail to comment further.
Nnamdi? “R” has to be my cousin Nnamdi…
That’s the line that jumped out at me too. Is Kanye a jackass? Often yes. But he made an excellent point here, I have to give that to him.
Just like any other social network, Twitter is what you make of it. There are lots of people who post their whole lives on there, and that’s the value Twitter has for them. I actually value my privacy very much; thus the reason I don’t post private information on Twitter.
Clearly, I am not the droid you’re looking for.
They sure slagged those Jawas.
If he spends so much time being creative maybe it’s time for him to put out a creative record and drop the over synthesized hip hop ring tone sounding crap. That is all.
WTF u mean he can rap his off and people and people on and should not did that but he a said sorry but just get over it all ready
its sooooooo disgusting how self absorbed and dilisional that retard is.
Has he not realized he is our puppet??….
he is here to entertain us….not the other way around.
Quit bitching and get back to being “busy” dumb a$$….write a song…look in the mirror…
just get off twitter LOSER
You do realize that he is the one laughing to the bank right?
@Kanye, ur caps r on, btw
Kanye is such a joke…
My only goal in life is to have someone start a “Fake Ryan” Twitter… then I will have certainly arrived.
I can do that just to be a smartass, if that’s what you really want. lol
Ha, for someone trying to make a point and sound intelligent his grammar is pants. You like fishdicks Kanye?
Kanye West is the voice of a generation. If he doesn’t like twitter then the young should not like twitter.
Pepsi isn’t the choice of a new generation.
Can we stop farting and burping now.
CHOCKLOCK!!!
You’ll see… three months later… @THE_REAL_KANYE pops up…
NOPE, I JUST TOOK IT. HOWEVER, I WILL GIVE IT TO HIM IF HE AGREES TO NEVER MAKE ANOTHER “RECORD” OR “SING” AGAIN.
@THE_REAL_KAYNE
NOTHING TO SEE HEAR – THE_REAL_KAYNE
Evident spelling mistakes for added impact
Kanye you could tweet like once a week and fans would still lap it up. Twitter doesn’t need to be a massive time investment.
Kanye West is just being a gay fish
that’s some BENJAMIN BUTTON’S SHIT!
Reminds me of the South Park episode as mentioned already.
Good, hopefully sense Kayne hates Twitter, TechCrunch will stop posting about it. Ahhh, I doubt it.
I love that guy
I was just noticing how creative Kanye was. I think I’ll Twitter it.
Don
GET OVER IT!
and check out my new blog http://www.usefultools.com
Done.
done, nice site by the way… If you start writing articles it would be a nice addition. Can’t wiat to find a site that is what TechCrunch used to be before the twitter love…
Kanye and Twitter are both douchebags.
http://www.topd.../Douchebag.aspx
Kanye IS a useful tool.
Someone should start a twitter account dedicated solely to how much Kanye whines. Oh wait… that’s his blog.
thank you kanye for the laugh and tc for covering our “once in a generation icon”
as a side note, i like the TC/fBconnect integration. first time i used it
How can we be sure that’s Kanye’s blog?
Interesting.. I thought he was trying to get over that huge ego of his…
how can we get MG to shut the f$^K up about twitter?
He spelled ‘there” wrong.
That was something I noticed as well. I think if one is going to vent then they should take the time to edit for using the correct words. I can understand him being upset that someone is using his name but I think it’s ridiculous to slam Twitter because of it, anyone can post things like that even on facebook and myspace and any other site. So why not just talk to the management at twitter to get the problem resloved.
Kanye West is a racist, talentless musical dud only 13 year old girls listen to, so his useless opinions mean nothing to me. It’s impossible for me to believe people actually listen to his garbage “rap” or anything he says.
Hey dude. I love Kanye West – I’m 22 & male.
Then grow up.
If he does he can fail your punk ass in b-balling, see?
He is a racist – and his music is sometimes kind of ‘in your face’ about it as well…
I do keep a number of tracks on the playlist though. Sometimes a few good little ole’ ‘kill whitey’ tracks are just what you need to survive the traffic
I’m bored as hell of Twitter articles on TechCrunch, and I’m not going to take anymore.
Seriously, dudes, get a grip on your Twitophilia.
Sure, he has every right to demand a fake account be taken down, but he could you know… email Twitter about it, rather then posting an all caps whine about it on his blog.
That said, I think everyone already knows Kanye is a baby about these things, so I wouldn’t expect anything less.
so perfectly said!
Everyone assumes that he didn’t email twitter…
This to me resembles the culmination of built up frustration with an on going issue that twitter wasnt responsive to.. I got the sense that he tried other avenues first
Just goes to prove what an incredible asshat Kanye is.
If not for his preteen fans he would have to go out and get a real job. He Kanye, Malibu’s Most Wanted II is looking for a sound track. It is so you.
WELL, I LIKE TWITTER AND DE TWEEPS DAT ARE ON DER..SUM ARE FRIENDS OF MINE B4 TWITTER… I CAN KEEP IN TOUCH AND KNOW THERE UPDATES WITOUT HAVING TO TXT OR CALL DEM ..I LOVE IT.. KANYE SMH U R SPECIAL… IN UR OWN LITTLE WORLD!! THXS BUNCHES!!!!
Just goes to prove what an incredible asshat Kanye is.
If not for his preteen fans he would have to go out and get a real job. Hey Kanye, Malibu’s Most Wanted II is looking for a sound track. It is so you. Go get all creative on ‘em and swear like the lowlife you are.
Cut and paste his Pulitzer here.
Kanye and will i am should start a talentless douchebag club and then jump off a cliff
I’m Kanye West, and I did not write this! The internet has taken my identity, and I WANT IT BACK.
AND YES I LIKE FISH STICKs. NO I IZ NOT A GAY FISH!
He is right, Their is a difference between a celebrity impostor and someone pretending to be the celebrity one is called entertainment the other is called fraud. Personally I am sick of hearing about Twitter, although there seems to be all these claims that “everyone is using it” I know no one who is using it. I do know a lot of people who use Face Book and My Space but no one who uses Twitter. Truly if you take the time to Tweet, then I really think you don’t have a life. You need a job, or a date or something. They made a big deal about Aston and his million followers, now he is a loser without any successful anythings… and he had to resort to hot looking chicks standing on the corners in Hollywood handing out flyers so you would add him to your twitter account, yep that some big social network technology marketing. I am in New Media, I produce I am a consultant for it, and I love it, but I really think Twitter has the best PR machine around. As all I keep doing is reading about them in the traditional media. One other thing, everyone talks about how many users Twitter keeps adding, funny though the loss 4 for everyone they add.
And here I used to think Kanye was a complete douche. Now I am only 98% correct.
Wow… this guy is getting more and more crazy every day!
Bets on this guy becoming the second Michael Jackson.
kanye is just an attention whore. smart.
i was impressed with kanye’s useage of to/too/two correctly until “…there fans…”. wah wah.
*usage
stupid shit
llllllol
Who cares if you get used?
I doubt Twitter has the funds or capacity to prove identity, nor would they care to. That’s entertainment for you.
dumbest shit ever said…
OMG Kanye shut up! Okay so there is a fake twitter, and probably other fake pages of people pretending to be you! No need to have a “kanye Classic Rant” Js say take it down and let people know its not you like Brandy did with the fake twitter page or any other celeb who found out about fake pages.I dislike him because he always have to make a small issue big, he never have enough attention! WOW YOUR CAPS ARE ON LOUD KANYE CRAZYASS WEST…OOOOOOH! ugh NEXT!
I twitter and yes SKIP FREDERICKS I have a life, js as you use myspace and facebook we tweeters use twitter! its js fun, how can you hate a site?? its actually a great marketing and networking tool so its not all about pointless information of ppls lives! I tweet on the go and its js interesting to see what goes on in other ppls lives daily and I can look at it whenever i want to! Its awesome and I luv my twitfam! My tweople! The Twitteratti..LMAO!
I totally agree with your first paragraph!
I can understand why twitter is successul but something I’ll probably never understand is how talentless guys like this citizen get rich selling his shit-canned music.
The contrarian in me loves this and I’m definitely going to start using “everything that [fill in the blank] offers I need less of”
Then again, what Twitter really offers Kanye is more than a chance to tell people that he’s lying on a beach. Famous People like Shaq and Lance Armstrong use Twitter for two-way communication with their fans and feel they beneft from it.
Then again, maybe the benefit is just that they enjoy it on a personal level.
who cares, kanye should learn how to sing before he tries twitter…
What’s that gay fish pissed off about this time?
IF I HAD A TWITTER THEN MAYBE THE HEADS OF TWITTER WOULD STOP TWITTERING MY TWITTER! IF MY HEAD TWITTERED THEN MAYBE THE TWITTERING TWITTERS WOULD TWITTER MY TWEET. YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKE TO TWITTER SO I PUT A TWITTER IN YOUR TWITTER SO YOU CAN TWITTER WHILE YOU TWITTER!!!
In which way does the way he sings or the way his songs suck matter here? Someone is clearly trying to act like him on Twitter and it is the twitter teams responsibility to close those accounts. Some people here need to grow up!
That bitch Pan and Tinkerbell again.