Legal Troubles, Bad PR & Privacy Concerns Force Celebs to Close Twitter Accounts

December 15th, 2009 admin

Twitter is an effective PR tool–sometimes. But several celebrities have recently taken their accounts down, or pretty much stopped tweeting, after privacy and publicity concerns came to a head. MTV News has more: Chris Brown is the latest artist to abandon the service completely, following the precedent set by Miley Cyrus and Lil Wayne. Brown’s exit came after a week’s worth of Twitter-based ranting about stores not stocking his new album Graffiti. The singer was convinced that there was some sort of conspiracy, and that either his label or the retail outlets were blackballing him. In one of his last screeds, he talked about going into a…


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