Trent Reznor says that he is retiring from social networking site Twitter. Though the Nine Inch Nails frontman had maintained a strong presence on the site, often responding to fans and famously micro-blogging about how bad the new Chris Cornell album was, he found that he just couldn't abide by the increasing presence of Metal Sludge:

"Looks like the Metal Sludge contingency has discovered Twitter! Finally! For those of you that don’t know what this is, please let me explain. Metal Sludge is the home of the absolutely worst people I’ve ever come across. It’s populated mainly by unattractive plump females who publicly fantasize about having sex with guys in bands. Kind of like a role-playing game where people nobody will fuck make up stories about their incredible sexual encounters with people they wish they could fuck. It would be kind of funny in a sad and pathetic way except the fun doesn’t stop there - hate and good old-fashioned outright blatant racism are also encouraged to spice things up and remind you how truly ugly these scourges are. Truly ugly on the inside (the outside is obvious)."

He then pronounced that he would not be tweeting in the near future:

"I will be tuning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it’s now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result. Idiots rule."

While Mr. Reznor is a savvy artist and can make his own choices, I would remind him that if only Metal Sludgers are tweeting, the only tweets will be Metal Sludge. [NME]