Pop stars tweet to reach their fans and feud with their rivals

Lady Gaga's tweets are eccentric, Lily Allen's snippy, Trent Reznor's charitable – and the Streets' Mike Skinner tweets out his latest tracksAttention-seeking, ego-massage, contact with adoring fans: it's obvious why pop stars have been such keen Twitterers. However, with the music business as the coalmine canary when it comes to the impact of digital technology on the arts, they've also been among Twitter's more inventive users. Last year, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor joined a T...

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