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According to the Tom Waits Twitter feed

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he's "in a hard time with money" and is having to flog ringtones via his tweets.

Is this the real Mr Waits? He is assuring followers that it is see -

http://twitter.com/tomwaits

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The real Tom Waits?

I doubt it:

I am sorry. I will try to find a way to get you a ringtone :)

Doesn't really sound like our man, does it?

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Fraser Lewry | 20 April 2009 - 9:36pm

There is no way

Tom Waits 'twitters'. It would be so wrong somehow.

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JoLean | 20 April 2009 - 9:39pm

Hell will freeze over first...

...thereby fulfilling a Tom Waits lyric.
The following is representative of his attitude to mobile phones and technology, from the gig I saw in Dublin:
"Your phone is also a camera. Well, my sunglasses are also a tricycle".
The idea of him flogging ringtones - while tweeting - is laughable.
What's more, I don't doubt that this impersonator will be hearing from his legal team shortly. Waits has been known to have a sense of humour failure when it comes to using his identity / likeness for profit. As many an advertiser has learned to their (substantial) cost.

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Edward Randell | 20 April 2009 - 11:14pm

Way Down in the Hole

is played at the beginning of every episode of The Wire, bringing in, I should imagine, a good deal of cash. It can't be him Twittering.

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matthew | 21 April 2009 - 5:53am

It has now..

been suspended due to `'strange activity"!!

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humphreym | 21 April 2009 - 6:25am
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