Some have blamed the cognac. Others think he's just a little left of loopy.
But Kanye West certainly got them going on Twitter when he wandered on stage to upstage country singer Taylor Swift as she accepted the Best Female Video award at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday.
West embarrassed himself by grabbing Swift's mic and making a rather creepy mess of his self image. Should you wonder what caused West's bizarre behavior, well, it appears he was upset that Beyonce didn't win. If only he'd waited till the end of the ceremony, he would have been able to applaud from the safety of his seat; Beyonce ended up winning the rather larger kahuna, the Video of the Year award.
He also might have prevented a frenzy of tweeting, including from those present at the event. The wondrous Pink, for example, tweeted: "Kanye west is the biggest piece of shit on earth. Quote me." (I do anything Pink tells me.) However, this sudden, frenzied burst of tweeting does give one pause for further thought.
Trendrr figures suggest that 293,024 tweets were dispatched by outraged or, perhaps, supportive beings in the single hour after West let his sense of occasion drift beyond Antarctica and keep going.
With Twitter changing its terms of service and now dedicating itself to the pursuit of advertising lucre, one wonders just what opportunities brands might have to pursue instant tweeting audiences like the one inadvertently delivered by West.
Naturally, there is a certain joy to be experienced in the thought that it was West who sparked such extraordinary Twitter activity, when he is truly, deeply, and perhaps even madly anti-Twitter. In May, he made it very clear just how upset he was that Twitter housed Kanye West impersonators and demanded to have his name returned to him.
I wonder whether he wants it back now.
Kanye West, rapper and, um, other things has a blog. He is happy with his blog. And he does not need to join the Twitterati.
However, having discovered that there are fake Twitter accounts in his name, Kanye took to his blog to, in his words, offer a "spaz" because of "losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts."
And what a spectacular spaz this was. In its way, quite a thoughtful spaz too.
He began, in rather untwitteresque caps, by saying: "DON'T HAVE A F****** TWITTER... WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I'M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE."
He then rapped the obsession with real-time communication so beloved of, oh, people who go to real-time communication conferences: "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."
I need less ice cream. Does Twitter offer that?
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Kanye appears to have been in contact with the Twitterarchy and explained that he does not want to Twitter, has no intention of Twittering, and wishes Twitter would just twitter off.
He continued with his caps: "THE PEOPLE AT TWITTER KNOW I DON'T HAVE A F****** 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."
In case you didn't quite get that, Kanye repeated for rhythmic emphasis: "THE HEADS OF TWITTER KNEW I DIDN'T HAVE A TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO KNOW WHICH ACCOUNTS HAVE HIGH ACTIVITY ON THEM."
Kanye ended with a question, and a significant question too: " IT'S A F****** 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?"
If you haven't already understood why, please don't worry, as Kanye is about to tell you. Are you ready?
"BECAUSE MY CAPS LOCK KEY IS LOUD!!!!!!!!!"
Yes, that is a real quote. And, yes, that is the end of his spaz.
I am sitting here, with many body parts twitching in anticipation of the American Idol semi-final result, wondering what it would be like to be Kanye. It's not easy, but I got into the character by going to Twitter, where I discovered 19 different Kanye Wests on the site.
I feel sympathy wafting through me. I am about to emit it when I happen upon a tiny Gawker item that questions whether Kanye always writes his own blog.
Oh, world. Why must you disappoint?
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