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What Taylor Swift Learned From Her Twitter Feud With Nicki Minaj

Recording artists Taylor Swift (L) and Nicki Minaj perform onstage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Aug. 30, 2015 in Los Angeles.
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October 08, 2015, 3:40 PM

 -- If there's one thing Taylor Swift's brief feud with Nicki Minaj taught her, it's that some things are better said offline.

"I send text messages now," the 25-year-old pop star told NME magazine recently. "If there seems to be some kind of misunderstanding, I go to someone's management, I get their number and I text them. It's an important lesson for anyone to learn in 2015."

Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift Spoke on the Phone to Resolve MTV VMAs Twitter Spat

Inside Taylor Swift's Twitter Spat With Nicki Minaj

The two stars clashed earlier this year when Swift mistook Minaj's criticism of the MTV VMAs on social media to be about her.

After multiple tweets back and forth between the two singers, Swift apologized to Minaj, both on Twitter and in a phone conversation. The pair later performed on stage at the VMAs, making it clear there is no ill will.

Meanwhile, Swift and Kanye West, who famously snubbed her at the 2009 VMAs, have become best of buds -- with her presenting him this year's MTV Video Vanguard Award and him sending her a serious flower arrangement.

"Me and Kanye are on such good terms now, six years later," Swift told NME. "It took a while... But I had to tell Beck this story earlier. I was at dinner with Kanye a week after the Grammys, he stops what he's saying and he goes, ‘What is this song? I need to listen to this every day.’ I said, ‘It's Beck, it's on an album called 'Morning Phase', I think you've heard of it...’ We just burst out laughing. And he says, ‘Hey, sometimes I'm wrong.’"

West crashed the stage when Beck won Album of the Year at the Grammys earlier this year and later told E! News that Beyonce should have won. He later publicly apologized on Twitter to the musician.