A review of Kanye West's Twitter account, with a dash of humour. But, starting in earnest before the company went public in 2013, Twitter began revealing what improvement means to them: acquiring more users, serving them more ads, and keeping them on Twitter by any means necessary. âThis is why we built this thing! ... Jul 22nd, 2010. Kanye West signed up to Twitter in July 2010, which is surely a date thatâs been commemorated in Twitter HQ with a massive plaque that its employees respectfully bow to ⦠Topping them all, as is her wont, is Courtney Love, who has survived not one but two libel suits that derived from angrily popping off on Twitter. Read on for our obsessively curated list ⦠Kardashian and West met in the early 2000s and he appeared on 'Keeping up with the Kardashians' in a 2010 episode when he visited Kourtney and Kim's DASH store in New York City. In the lead-up to the release of Kanyeâs 2016 LP The Life of Pablo, he turned the album press-cycle into a public performance of his monumentally chaotic creative process. fur pillows! : )â. Jack Dorsey was there. Lady Gaga and Kanye West were among the musicians whose Twitter posts were the most retweeted in 2010, itâs been announced. Itâs hard to remember musical life online before Twitter knocked down the barriers separating previously isolated social groupsâmusicians, critics, fans, messageboarders, industry types, bored onlookersâand let their thoughts commingle in a colossal public sphere dominated by a scoreboard of follower counts, likes, and retweets (and, more recently, the dreaded âratioâ). Itâs more than a platform for controversy, social justice, or flame wars, thoughâas part of The Stream, Twitter partakes of the same online attention economy as streaming music. Williams, who came to Twitter after selling Blogger to Google, saw it as a communications network where global conversations could happen. Rosie Swash. When he stole the mike from Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, the world booed, but when he started a Twitter feed almost a year later, we all jumped on to follow him. Kanyeâs unavailability to journalists didnât mean he was silentâhe had just moved nearly all communication to his 24/7 personal news channel. Earlier this year, Natalie Portman denied dating Moby in a Harperâs Bazaar interview, which led to the musician trying in vain to defend himself with a shirtless photo on his Instagram page, which led to him being roasted for what felt like a solid month on Twitter. And even though Beyoncé finds Twitter âtoo limitingâ and âtoo crowded,â her mastery of The Streamâs fleeting whims has inspired more activity on the platform than anyone else by several orders of magnitude. On July 28, 2010, West announced on his new official Twitter account that: "The album is no longer called 'Good Ass Job' I'm bouncing a couple of titles around now." So yes, while a new breed of yuppies were networking the world anew, they were likely accompanied by the dystopic strains of âParanoid Android.â. When he wasnât beefing with Wiz Khalifa or proclaiming Bill Cosbyâs innocence, he was publicly and messily doing what is usually a very private activity: naming his album. He dropped tantalizing hints about his forthcoming album, and his novel use of the short form medium soon spawned the #PredictingKanyeTweets hashtag. At that point, when the site had only a handful of users, Glass and Dorsey road-tested Twitter at Coachella and attempted a partnership with the 2007 VMAs. Indeed, one of the most defining images of the last decade of music news is artists slamming their accounts shut in disgust or exhaustion. Ariana Grande, Rihanna, and Lana Del Rey have each used Twitter as savvily as anyone, making short missives a part of their world-conquering chill. Twitter introduced embedded photos and videos and GIFs and polls and threads and the reply-with-comment feature; it improved its ad services, and started offering analytics for individual tweets. Then, that October, he deleted everything. The duoâs follow-up? âUp early in the morning taking meetings in Silicone Valley,â he tweeted. 'Kim can't stand it. Three months after releasing a song named for their Twitter handle, Death Grips gave up the ghost. Itâs much more fun when musicians go after each other. ... with West appearing in a 2010 ⦠The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Demi Lovato quit in 2010, 2016, and earlier this year. 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Kim had been dating Kris Humphries at the time. The When Twitter was dreamed up, in fact, it was with music in mind. One of the most powerful Ferguson protest songs, Lauryn Hillâs âBlack Rage,â was announced through her Twitter account. More than Facebook or Instagram, Twitter eradicates the distinction between personal and global: A stray thought about a surprise-released album or a well-timed joke during the VMAs could go viral, trigger an argument with a fellow traveler convinced of their own correctness, orâlike most tweetsâlanguish in relative obscurity, drowned out by the din. ... Albums of 2010 Albums of 2010, No 2: Kanye West â My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. On the Importance of âMe Timeâ (April 2014) The Stream has proven to be an incredibly powerful medium to link music with progressive social movements, too. The beginning of Kanye West's Twitter rant. âWhere do I draw the line? First it was So Help Me God, then Swish, then Waves. In early 2012, he unfurled (and soon deleted) an epic 86-tweet binge about his fledgling attempts to gain entry into the fashion industry that in some ways updated the stream-of-consciousness spoken-word monologue with which he closed out his debut album, The College Dropout. 09/2, How Did We Get Here?