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12:05 am - 11/01/2009
STEPHEN FRY DEPRESSED, DOES A 'MILEY'
AND QUITS TWITTER.
Stephen Fry has said he is going to quit Twitter after a fellow user of the popular internet site described him as “boring”.
The television presenter has been one of Britain’s biggest champions of the social networking site. Last month he used it to announce the end of his television series Kingdom. He also used Twitter to spearhead a campaign against a newspaper columnist who had described the death of Stephen Gately, the gay pop star, as "sleazy", describing the article as “loathsome”.
Yesterday Fry said he was ready to silence his fingers and thumbs and stop providing his 925,000 followers with near-hourly updates on his thoughts and activities, known as “tweets”. At 2.18pm he posted: “Think I may have to give up on Twitter. Too much aggression and unkindness around. Pity. Well, it’s been fun.”
Fry has battled with depression in the past and his comments sparked concern among fans and fellow celebrities, who instantly started a Save Stephen campaign on the site. His decision to quit came shortly after getting into a war of words with another user. BrumPlum, a 47-year-old blogger called Richard from Birmingham, had posted a tweet that said: “I understand Stephen Fry’s tweets but, much as I admire and adore the chap, they are a bit . . . boring . . . (sorry Stephen).”
Fry responded: “BrumPlum you’ve convinced me. I’m obviously not good enough. I retire from Twitter henceforward. Bye everyone.”
BrumPlum later apologised to the television star but said that Fry had overreacted to his comments. BrumPlum’s feed has now been bombarded by comments from angry Fry fans.
After a flurry of messages from other members of the “Twitterati” calling for him to stay on the site, Fry appeared to backtrack slightly and posted: “Well maybe I’ll see how I feel in a few days. Very low and depressed at the moment and any drop of meanness makes it so much worse. Sorry.” The presenter of the quiz show QI hit the headlines recently when he used his Twitter account to rail against an article by the Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir on the death of Gately.
His tweets were credited with prompting the record 21,000 complaints to the Press Complaints Commission over the opinion piece, which he described as “a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with”. However, some of his other tweets might justly be described as falling into the “boring” category. Last week he was moaning about the backlog of e-mails on his mobile phone and the fact that his PC’s printer would not work. Another tweet said simply “Hurrah for curry”.
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AND QUITS TWITTER.
Stephen Fry has said he is going to quit Twitter after a fellow user of the popular internet site described him as “boring”.
The television presenter has been one of Britain’s biggest champions of the social networking site. Last month he used it to announce the end of his television series Kingdom. He also used Twitter to spearhead a campaign against a newspaper columnist who had described the death of Stephen Gately, the gay pop star, as "sleazy", describing the article as “loathsome”.
Yesterday Fry said he was ready to silence his fingers and thumbs and stop providing his 925,000 followers with near-hourly updates on his thoughts and activities, known as “tweets”. At 2.18pm he posted: “Think I may have to give up on Twitter. Too much aggression and unkindness around. Pity. Well, it’s been fun.”
Fry has battled with depression in the past and his comments sparked concern among fans and fellow celebrities, who instantly started a Save Stephen campaign on the site. His decision to quit came shortly after getting into a war of words with another user. BrumPlum, a 47-year-old blogger called Richard from Birmingham, had posted a tweet that said: “I understand Stephen Fry’s tweets but, much as I admire and adore the chap, they are a bit . . . boring . . . (sorry Stephen).”
Fry responded: “BrumPlum you’ve convinced me. I’m obviously not good enough. I retire from Twitter henceforward. Bye everyone.”
BrumPlum later apologised to the television star but said that Fry had overreacted to his comments. BrumPlum’s feed has now been bombarded by comments from angry Fry fans.
After a flurry of messages from other members of the “Twitterati” calling for him to stay on the site, Fry appeared to backtrack slightly and posted: “Well maybe I’ll see how I feel in a few days. Very low and depressed at the moment and any drop of meanness makes it so much worse. Sorry.” The presenter of the quiz show QI hit the headlines recently when he used his Twitter account to rail against an article by the Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir on the death of Gately.
His tweets were credited with prompting the record 21,000 complaints to the Press Complaints Commission over the opinion piece, which he described as “a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with”. However, some of his other tweets might justly be described as falling into the “boring” category. Last week he was moaning about the backlog of e-mails on his mobile phone and the fact that his PC’s printer would not work. Another tweet said simply “Hurrah for curry”.
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There I fixed it for ya.
brumplum better have an unlisted number and a bomb shelter to hide in.
I'm glad movie studios are starting to make contracts banning their actors from using twitter.
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore need to cut that shit out. Its annoying as hell. But since none of them seem to be doing much of anything anymore theyll be tweeting until they die.
i also hate that, partly thanks to celebs on twitter, everything on that site is deemed newsworthy or - as we've seen all over CNN - used to tell news. i have so many problems with twitter it's not even funny.
This is why Twitter also is so very often revealing. Because it doesn't require effort, people are not particulary cautious about what they are writing.
Personally I don't care for it, but I hope studios don't start banning celebrities. It provides good lols.
shame. didnt he actually respond to his followers?
Edited at 2009-11-01 12:23 am (UTC)
Besides, it's not like Twitter's such a hotbed of wit and interest anyway.
Stephen Fry, the greatest that I bow down to, is the reason I have a twitter account.
And that's probably my favourite line in it :)
WHAT. OMG I'M GETTING THE BELT. BRB.