Twitter may be the hottest thing in social networking at the moment, but count NIN mastermind Trent Reznor as a recent convert to the naysayers.

According to Rolling Stone, Reznor "recently contributed a post to the official NIN.com message board in which he confesses his disappointment in the overall negativity of online communities, writing, 'We’re in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of experience..'"

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