Mayer-Aniston breakup: Blame Twitter?

John Mayer's deep thoughts on Twitter.

(Credit: Twitter)

So I once went on a movie date with a guy who thought it was sort of weird that I posted to Twitter about the movie in mid-date. In retrospect, it probably was weird, and a bit rude, and I wouldn't do it again (and no, there was no second date). But get a load of this one.

Sources quoted in Star magazine and rehashed by the U.K.'s Telegraph (we can tell this anonymous source is just rock solid) claim that the highly publicized relationship between pop singer John Mayer and actress Jennifer Aniston fizzled because of the evil forces of...Twitter!

"People claiming to be friends of (Aniston) have told Star magazine that she finished the affair after discovering Mayer, 31, spent hours on the networking website, despite telling her he was too busy to get in touch with her," the Telegraph report alleged.

Mayer has become an extremely avid user of the microblogging service (username is @johncmayer), along with fellow celebrities like basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, comedians Jimmy Fallon and John Hodgman, and actor Ashton Kutcher (who famously got his wife, actress Demi Moore, to join Twitter as well).

But now it looks like the celebrity Twitterers may be getting a glimpse of what many of us in the tech industry know already: Chronicling your life in constant 140-character updates doesn't leave much wiggle room once you've gotten used to always telling the world what you're doing. I'm sure more than a few people have gotten in trouble because they Twittered about watching sports at a bar when they'd informed their bosses that they were holed up in bed with the flu.

A concluding note to John Mayer: Look on the bright side. At least this time the tabloids aren't blaming a breakup on infidelity, drug addiction, or the failure to disclose a venereal disease. I know plenty of nice, smart girls who wouldn't mind a Twitter-addicted beau.

[minerm]

I guess she saw the writing on the wall

[infinitely]

twitter is so damn pointless unless you're a celebrity.

[giggles]

Twitter is so damn pointless.

[Beruda]

She should just let this go. He seems wishy-washy and very imature.

[man_w_balls]

twiiter is rad
another reason to sign up
chicks will break up with you

[rr72]

What a ni-TWIT!

[santibarguen]

Did you guys see the Pownce replacement was launched today! Check it out @ http://www.twibeo.com

[this1!]

that reporting was great for the most part, but then this god awful piece of writing: comedian jimmy fallon... the slightest of investigations would show that fallon is about as close to being a comedian, as I am to being the biological father of jesus christ.

[fooldog01]

I cant tell you how sick I am of hearing ANYTHING about Twitter. How did Twitter explode within the past 4 weeks?? Ive never seen anything like it. ESPN wont shutup about Twitter, I hear about it on every radio program I listen to, it's on the news... I want it to go away!