John Mayer says Twitter is over

When I first read this story it dawned on me that we haven’t heard anything from John Mayer in months! The guy really deserves some credit for shutting the f’ck up for a while. *slow clap* It’s been a whole two and a half months since Mayer dug himself into that deep, dark PR hole that was his racist, sexist, tell-all Playboy interview. Well Mayer is talking again and it’s not entirely self-aggrandizing for once. He says he thinks Twitter is “over” and mentioned that the haters are getting him down.

John Mayer has revealed he is planning to cancel his account on micro-blogging website twitter because he thinks it is ”over” as a means of communication.

The ‘Gravity’ singer – one of the most high-profile users of the social networking website – admits he is growing tired of micro-blogging and is preparing to cancel his account on the site, unless its owners change its purpose.

He said: “Within in the last couple weeks, every night I think about cancelling my twitter account because I think it’s pretty much done.

“I just think twitter as a form of communication, I think it’s over to be honest with you.

“I would rather see twitter be a cork board of links to other more important things, because it’s really sort of flawed from the beginning. I can’t tell you how many times I meet people or I’m having dinner with people who write stuff and they get upset they have haters now, like, `Why do I want to invent more reasons to have haters?’ ”

The musician – who has previously dated stars including Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson – has come to realise that he could utilise his time better than spending his free moments on the internet.

He added: “I might as well spend that time making a sandwich or building a model ship or something.

“My challenge going forward is to basically disregard the need, the obsessive need for external validation.”

[From Contact Music]

Let me just repeat that last quote. “My challenge going forward is to basically disregard the need, the obsessive need for external validation.” You think? I checked Mayer’s Twitter and he hasn’t written anything in a whole two weeks so maybe he’s serious about giving up Twitter. This is the same guy who dissed Jennifer Aniston for not being more connected, and said in Playboy “If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent, I’ll eat my f*cking shoe…. The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, ‘These are the new rules.'”

So instead of admitting that he’s using the technology to mentally masturbate, Mayer is blaming the technology he once hailed for somehow being inadequate. He calls Twitter “over” and “flawed from the beginning.” If it were so flawed, why have celebrities been flocking to it to communicate with fans? I’m not a Twitter user and find that it’s just another thing that I have to keep up with in my busy life, but why knock the medium when the issue is what you’re using it for? Twitter allows people to get information across quickly and to a large group of people and in that way it’s an important, ground breaking tool. If you’re a tool then Twitter will reflect that, but it’s not Twitter’s fault! Mayer is behind the times anyway. Miley Cyrus quit Twitter six months ago.

John Mayer is shown out at Coachella on 4/16/10. Credit: WENN.com

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