But he did suffer an almost Faustian decent into madness, poor chap, so bit of karma there. And he was stitched up the second time!
Twitter could have been made for match updates.
Handy for acts announcing albums/tour dates and the like as well.
For everything else it should be bludgeoned repeatedly. Like so much of the interweb it's entirely based on people's deluded belief that the whole world is simply dying to know what they think about everything.