Jeez! Looks like I touched a nerve (several nerves, in fact ). But to answer your direct questions: It would seem that Richie has seen some of the tweets lately, some of them right around the ones CKatz quoted; and yes I would care. I can't speak for Richie, obviously; but if I were in the middle of a rumor storm like the one he's in right now and someone was posting something that wasn't true about my situation and stating it as fact, I think I'd care. But that's just me. After the past four months maybe he's heard so much negative (and positive) BS that he doesn't pay it any attention.

The reason I think it's ballsy is that from what I've seen (which admittedly is not much because Twitter annoys me), usually when people are spouting BS about Richie they don't tweet @ him. They usually keep those kinds of comments between themselves.

I just found it interesting that the guy would tweet @Richie with something if he wasn't pretty sure of what he was saying. If, as you imply, he's trying to impress someone or get someone's attention to get his music heard, I'm not sure that would be the way to go. But again, that's just me. Can't speak for anyone else.