Firstly, Stephen Fry is a self-confessed bipolar ‘type’ and his mood swings have led to erratic behaviour in the past. His ‘follower’s comments of ‘boring’ were perfectly justified, since many (including Stephen’s) posts are made up by ‘witterings and musings’, largely containing trite and trivial info of a daily dose of doings. To be ‘offended’ by this seems extremely over-sensitive of Fry and since this occurred, he’s patched things up with the guy concerned and all’s well.

What’s most bizarre and almost disappointing is the request to ‘retweet’ calls for Stephen to ‘not leave’ Twitter, as if he’s some linchpin of the whole social site itself. He’s a grown man who can come and go as he pleases and this elevation to Twitter guru is all a bit distasteful, to me.

Furthermore, perhaps it’s time that the celebrities who use this site to propel their careers (not necessarily the case in SF’s tweets), should put some thought into actually engaging people, responding to messages once in a while and resisting the temptation to constantly SPAM ‘fans’ with their tawdry tat touting.