Axl Rose, frontman of Guns ‘n’ Roses, updated his Twtter page late last night with the following:
“All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially cancelled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.”
At the moment nobody knows any more. His tour is currently in central America, so he is either being very cheeky and causing panic for his fans, or there is a serious problem. He next tour dates are in the UK, with Reading, Leeds and Belfast at the end of August. The band then returns for a London gig at the o2 on the 13th October, followed by Birmingham and Manchester. See all tour dates here.
His Twitter page has 65,845 followers at the moment, and he follows nobody. Looks like he is making good use of Twitter to speak directly to his fans without having to get managers and PR people involved. Good work Axl – just don’t write on it when drunk! Over at Planet Rock they are wondering if his Twitter account was hijacked by Slash! (he’s the original Guns n’ Roses guitarist for you youngsters).
Axl Speaks More Twitter Then Most
An interesting discovery. All of Axl Rose’s Tweets have a link, and that links leads to a website called TwitLonger.com. This is an independant website that allows you to sign up and write a longer entry, like a blog post, which will then send a Tweet to your profile. A clever way to make money from Twitter. They host the blogs and place Google Adsense averts beneath each post.
If you want to do this on your own, you can get WordPress blogs to updated Twitter automatically. If you want to learn this just ask me and I will write a post on it. It is very simple.
