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World peace may be none of our business, but micro-blogging is now Morrissey’s.

The legendary singer’s long dormant Twitter account came to life earlier today with a cryptic message:

Hello. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Planet Earth, are you there? One can only hope…

— Morrissey (@itsmorrissey) May 14, 2014

It seems at long last, the mysterious frontman who has long been known for being boisterous and merciless with his views on the subject of animal rights (he once said in an online chat with fans: “I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia [sic]…They are both rape, violence, murder.”), the Royal Family (“[they] are so dull as people that it is actually impossible to discuss them”) and has even voiced his support of Mexican-Americans living in Los Angeles (“Being positioned in California for a long time, I can see how Mexicans are treated as secondary, always, and I don’t know why, because the Mexicans were there first, and they built California, so why should they be secondary?”) has now taken to the social media site Twitter to offer his fans an direct line into his world.

Long time Moz fans would usually flock to the fan site true-to-you.net to get the latest insight from the former Smiths frontman whose recent Twitter activity shot his followers to about 170,000 and will likely grow in the coming days.

The singer, who recently performed to a sold out audience at LA Sports Arena last Saturday, came under fire via Twitter from the band We Are Scientists following a disagreement stemming from the two artists having to share the same venue at the May 8 show at The Observatory in Santa Ana, Calif.

Because Morrissey insisted on having We Are Scientists, who were playing the smaller venue inside, The Constellation Room, either, cancel their show or move their set time ahead, the band fired off a few malicious tweets about Moz:

The @itsmorrissey show was the laziest, most milquetoast piece of shit I’ve ever had the misfortune of suffering through ten minutes of.

— We Are Scientists (@wearescientists) May 9, 2014

Spent the first 20 minutes of @itsmorrissey set wondering how they got a luau pig into a TopShop blazer. Then I realized IT WAS MORRISSEY!

— We Are Scientists (@wearescientists) May 9, 2014

Turns out the reason @itsmorrissey doesn’t want competing noise is that it might clue people into what singing in tune sounds like.

— We Are Scientists (@wearescientists) May 9, 2014

Morrissey has been touring throughout the U.S., in support of his upcoming album World Peace Is None Of Your Business due on July 15 via Harvest/Capitol Records.

Its unknown whether its mere coincidence that Morrissey would arrive on Twitter a week after the Santa Ana incident, or if he is taking to social media to promote his new album, but Twitter just got a lot more interesting.

For a man who famously sang “How Soon Is Now,” his arrival on Twitter couldn’t have come soon enough.

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