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Fry outcry shows new face of Twitter

Source: The Guardian
Birmingham : United Kingdom | 29 days ago  
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The Stephen Fry outcry shows how Twitter has changed As a user who criticised Stephen Fry discovered, Twitter can now turn anyone into a news story. Time to get off the site? Stephen Fry: used Twitter to head off the controversy. Photograph: Steve Forrest/Rex Features The way that Twitter mixes the private...
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  • News Source: The Guardian | 29 days ago
    The Stephen Fry outcry shows how Twitter has changed As a user who criticised Stephen Fry discovered, Twitter can now turn anyone into a news story. Time to get off the site? Stephen Fry: used Twitter to head off the controversy. Photograph: Steve...
  • News Source: The New York Times | 29 days ago
    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 Saturday, speaking of the tweets of Stephen Fry , the British writer, actor and...
  • News Source: The independent | 29 days ago
    Fry, who famously suffers from bipolar disorder, later confessed he was feeling "very low and depressed at the moment". But as he took off on a jet to Los Angeles, the backlash began. Fry's followers attacked brumplum, real name Richard, from...
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  • Blog Source: twimmer.com
    Attacks and counterattacks after a criticism of Stephen Fry on Twitter were examples of how Twitter reinforces the tendency of adults to behave like high school students.
  • Blog Source: www.simplyzesty.com
    Posted on October 31st, 2009 by Lauren Fisher in Twitter. It seems that possibly the most influential and high profile tweeter – Stephen Fry , has quit. Stephen Fry quits Twitter. Seemingly in response to an earlier tweet , Stephen Fry ...
  • Blog Source: www.rss4gadgets.co.uk
    The mini-saga kicked off when one of Fry's fans had the temerity to criticise Fry's utterances on Twitter as boring. “I admire and adore” Fry, the fan said, but his tweets “a bit… boring… (sorry Stephen)”. ...
  • Blog Source: tech.blorge.com
    All he did was suggest that some of Fry's tweets have been a little boring. He wasn't vicious, didn't slander him in any way, and wasn't partaking in anything as bad as cyberbullying. I hope Fry doesn't leave Twitter but I also hope ...
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    stephen fry 2005 cr johnny boylan1 203x300 Stephen Fry to Quit Twitter? I spotted a tweet this afternoon from legendary actor, pundit and tech geek Stephen Fry that brought a disappointed frown to my face. ...
  • Blog Source: keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com
    I retire from Twitter henceforward. Bye everyone.” His tweet was directed to another Twitter user who had early described Fry's input to the microblogging site as “a bit… boring”. Fry went on to write: “Think I may have to give up on ...
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