Chris Brown Again Shows Twitter Immaturity, Deletes Account

Is Chris Brown ever going to grow up? This time the R&B singer sent out a stream of stunningly crass tweets after he got into it on Twitter with comedy writer Jenny Johnson, ending the confrontation by deleting his Twitter account—which must be the immature celebrity version of taking your ball and going home.

Among the statements that Brown directed at Johnson on Twitter include “Take them teeth out when u Sucking my d–k HOE” and “mom says hello… She told me not to shart in ur mouth, wanted me to sh*t right on the retina.”

On Sunday, Johnson sent out her final tweet on the subject of Brown.

“According to Team Breezy, if you have a difference of opinion with someone, ‘eating a d—‘ is the cure for any and all problems. ‪#Knowledge,” she wrote.

Brown has gotten into so many Twitter beefs and has been the target of so many boycotts and attacks that one would think the young man at some point might realize lashing out at every person who has an unkind word for him is going to make him extremely tired and perpetually angry. After all, once you get arrested for taking your fists and pummeling the face of one of the most popular singers in the world, you should expect to be on the receiving end of some rancor. But that doesn’t seem to be a fact that Brown has yet come to terms with—leading one to ask, Where are this boy’s parents?

But Brown’s immaturity and abuse still hasn’t chased away Rihanna. The pop superstar posted a picture on Twitter that was clearly a shirtless Brown lying in her bed—though his face wasn’t visible, his unmistakeable tattoos were. Last week, after she hopped on a private jet to meet Brown in Berlin where he was performing, she tweeted, “All alone in my big ole jet!!! See u soon lover,” letting the world know she was spending Thanksgiving with Brown.

While it is clear they are back together, the stars are trying to deny it, with saying they’re “working on their friendship.”

“Me and her have history, and me and her are definitely always going to be best of friends,” he told Power 106 radio host Big Boy.

“If I had it my way, it would be really nobody’s business,” Rihanna said to Andy Cohen.

As for Brown and Twitter, it’s not the first time he has deleted his account after getting into some trouble. He did it in 2009 after blasting Walmart and other retailers for refusing to carry his album Graffiti after the Rihanna assault arrest—though Walmart actually did carry the album. And he memorably cursed out the world after the Grammys, but then deleted the tweets.

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