Tom Dunne: I wish some of my music heroes would stay off Twitter
Clockwise: Lloyd Cole, David Byrne, Susanna Hoffs
Twitter celebrated its 17th birthday on Wednesday. It has changed the landscape of how we get our news. For musicians it has become an unavoidable tool for self-promotion but 17 years in, is it being well used?
The problem is mundanity. Many musicians seem to have taken to Twitter to let us all know that their lives can be quite mundane too. They don’t need to tell us that. We kind of already knew that. We did not come to them for more mundanity. We are good for mundanity.
