Talk about a gig that couldn't have existed at any other point in time. Serial nonsense-espouser Courtney Love has begat her own much-needed translator to decipher her fat-fingered, stream-of-consciousness tweets, named, aptly, CLTranslated.

Michael Jackson is being honored today with a star-studded tribute at Los Angeles' Staples Center. Some 17,000 fans won tickets to the event, where celebrities and fellow musicians will be on hand to pay their respects, including Kobe Bryant, Jennifer Hudson, Magic Johnson, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Usher, Mariah Carey, and Stevie Wonder.

Could the trend of musicians using Twitter starting to reverse? Probably not, but Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor said yesterday that after "experimenting" with social networking, he's ready to call it quits.

Last night at the Windish Agency showcase at Emo's Annex, where bands like Dirty Projectors and Datarock were playing to a packed group of sweaty fans, there was a huge screen showing incoming tweets from anyone who felt like sending a message to Twitter directed at Emo's account. It was a clear sign of just how prevalent Twitter is here at SXSW.