OMG! Miley Cyrus quits Twitter via YouTube!
There are those moments in the business cycle of a young dynamic brand when people look back and say: "If only that hadn't happened."
And so it is with Twitter. And so it is with Miley Cyrus.
You see Miley, she who is sometimes Hannah Montana, was rapidly becoming one of Twitter's most trusted Swiss Guards. She had almost 2 million followers.
Now the sheep have lost their shepherdess. For Miley Cyrus has silenced her tweets, starved her Twitter feed, and drifted off into the uncertain socially not-working darkness from which some stars never return.
This is clearly a disaster for Twitter. Microblogging needs micro people to bring in the macro crowds. Cyrus, who is possibly only four or five years old in real life, was one of Twitter's most durable pre-pubescent predilections.
After her painful and dramatic departure, how can coming generations take the brand seriously?
Perhaps worse, though, is the means Cyrus chose to deliver her beating on tweeting. Yes, she went on YouTube. And, yes, she performed a "Good-Bye, Twitter" rap.
In the rap, she dismisses the idea that she was forced to quit Twitter by her boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, an Australian actor perhaps most famous for his role as, well, Miley Cyrus's boyfriend.
If my ears served me correctly, Cyrus seems to suggest in this musical tour-de-farce that she was concerned that she had begun to "tweet her pimples."
I was not aware that she had pimples, nor that she had attempted to tweet them. But I am concerned that she may have tried to do this without the appropriate medical supervision.
However, before my cup of concern overflowed into my glass of cabernet, I could hear the world's next Streisand rap that no one really cares if she's "playing with Noah" or "doing my hair."
I am not sure who Noah might be, but the underlying arc of pain seems to have been caused by those horrid gossipy tabloids trawling through her tweets, like investigative journalists digging into Elton John's garbage cans, in search of juicy information.
In a disturbingly out-of-sync climax, Cyrus declares she wants "her private life private" and that is done "trying to please."
It is a confessional that will surely make so many of the world's parents weep. Indeed, Cyrus admits that she became a little obsessed with Katy Perry and Britney, but that she is now "peacin' out."
As I peace together this seminal moment in social-networking history, I find myself saddened beyond measure that one of the world's great Twitterers may have been forever lost.
Nonethless, I know that you, together with the Twitter hierarchy, will cling on to the fact that one of the world's other great rappers, Kevin Federline, appears to still have a Twitter account.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
LOL!
Spot on, indeed. Rap needs to "die in hell" as some other commenter said about something else today.
And that was the worst. rap. EVER.
Eeeww, did I just say that??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVcT6UQVLl0
Also all you guys need to read this:
http://xtremestylez.com/849/social-networking/protect-your-privacy-online
"Butterfly in my eye. Hurricane next week?"
She is adorable. And I kind of loved the rap. (Go ahead. Make fun of me.) Oh, and good article too. I lol'd.
Hah. Thank you. Nothing wrong with loving Miley. I respect you all the more for coming straight out with your feelings.
We all have pleasures that not everyone might share.
I mean, I know pumpkin scones are bad for me. But sometimes I have to, I just have to. And, well, I did download some Sugarland once (and, um, liked it).
We are all weak. Thank you for commenting.
Chris
WHAT?! there are no girls on the internet?!
<4chan>TlTS OR ****</4chan>
WT.F?!
I think she should come back to twitter it aint the same without her
And um guilty 2 just for wastin my time commentin on this crap
knoing who she was cuz regardless of how little u think of her one can hardly walk into wal mart without seeing her. my wal mart anyway lol. seriously right out in front they have a miley cyrus girls section. next to one of the front doors a poster of her. lol i think wal mart likes her. or perhaps disney is giving them a cut. either way idc
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