What have Jan Moir, AA Gill and Jimmy Carr got in common? They have all provoked storms of protest on microblogging website Twitter. But is this a new age of democracy, or a danger to free speech? One day a few weeks back,... [read full story]
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The comedian announced he was giving up Twitter after he was accused of being boring. It's tougher than you think being a celebrity tweeter, says a fellow performer Although my passport has me down as British, anyone monitoring...
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Sneak thinks that Stephen Fry can't ever have read the reviews for Jeeves and Wooster, his ITV update of the Wodehouse classics. Because if he had he would certainly have a thicker skin that it currently appears. This week Sir...
A BLOGGER who caused a storm by branding Stephen Fry "boring" on a social networking site has become an online hate figure. The remarks prompted Fry to briefly quit the site before making a U-turn less than 24 hours later. But...
SARAH LYALL November 3, 2009 IN THE realm of Twitter insults, it was at the far end of mild. ''Much as I admire and adore the chap, they are a bit … boring,'' a Twitter user called brumplum wrote about the tweets of British...
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By Rachael Wheeler, Mirror.co.uk 2/11/2009 Stephen Fry has admitted feeling "more sheepish than a sheep" after a fellow user on the micro-blog website Twitter branded him "boring". On Saturday, Stephen spotted that one of his...
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As a user who criticised Stephen Fry discovered, Twitter can now turn anyone into a news story. Time to get off the site? The way that Twitter mixes the private and public spheres was always one of its interesting aspects. But...
As a user who criticised Stephen Fry discovered, Twitter can now turn anyone into a news story. Time to get off the site? The way that Twitter mixes the private and public spheres was always one of its interesting aspects. But...
