Tweets from the Streets

Even over 140 characters, Mike Skinner is Streets ahead, says Sam RichardsEver get the feeling you've been tweeted? Signing up to a pop star's Twitter feed is a mug's game: the 21st-century equivalent of sending off £5 (in coins, taped to a strip of cardboard) to join your favourite band's official fan club, only to be rewarded with little more than a badge and Christmas flexidisc. The idea that you're getting some kind of privileged peek behind pop's velvet curtain is ludicrous. Even if the up...

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