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Prince Is Now Using Twitter, And He’s Adorably Bad At It

Also, he puts way too much pepper on his salads.

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With classic song titles like ‘I Would Die 4 U’, ‘When 2 R In Love’, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and ‘Jack U Off’ (those are just the romantic ones I can find on my iPod), Prince was pretty much made for the modern world. And YouTube, too:

Unfortunately, as he’s revealed time and time again, Prince is also a well-known hater of technology. Earlier this year, he did that great interview with V Magazine where he exhibited a weird skepticism towards mobile phones (excerpt: “I ask how tech-averse he really is; does he have an iPhone? ‘Are you serious?’ he says. ‘Hell, no.’ He mimics a high-voiced woman. ‘Where is my phone? Can you call my phone? Oh, I can’t find it.'”) or that interview from The Daily Mirror a few years back where he compared “computers and gadgets” to MTV and said “the internet’s completely over”.

Well, I guess he changed his mind? Because as of today, Prince is on Twitter at @3rdeyegirl (the name of his new band)… and he’s pretty bad at it.

1. Prince’s first tweet

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Lols, remember those days? “Ah, I don’t know how this works, I’m so nervous! Testing, testing…” (Mine was only a couple of weeks ago.)

2. Prince’s second tweet

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These tweets are very literal.

3. Prince’s third tweet (and first foodstagram!)

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Gah, yes you did, Prince.

4. Jesus Christ, thank God he stopped counting his tweets.

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He already understands memes! I hope he does something with this next:

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5. The selfie

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Unless he magically transforms into smoke vapours every evening, I don’t think Prince understands what a selfie is.

Stay up to date on other exciting Prince Twitter developments at @3rdeyegirl. Maybe he’ll even add some salad to his pepper tomorrow.