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Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 15:28 GMT 15:28 UK

A lot of the comments below seem to suggest that we should all be the same.

If social networks work for you, fine.

If social networks do not work for, equally fine.

We are all different. Because something works for someone else that doesn't work for you personally, that doesn't mean that personal is juvenile, sad, a twit.

Social networking is like anything else, it is what you make of it.

Simon Cross, Rustington, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 15:27 GMT 15:27 UK

This is getting worse. Not only do we have to put up with this so called 'news' we now have to suffer the on-line kiss and make up by both parties.

These social networking sites are not meant to be taken seriously are they? Surely if Mr. Fry is of such a sensitive nature, one cannot but ask why the blue blazes is he putting himself through all this 'angst'? Does he secretly enjoy it?

Come on the BBC, you can do better than this with licence payers' money.

Andrew Barker, Llanwrda, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 15:12 GMT 15:12 UK

Who are these people who think that the rest of the world want to know the details of their lives?

Are they so sad that they only feel self worth by touting all of the things that they do online?

Get a real life....live it to the full & only share it with people that actually care what your upto.

Gazza Fish, Basingstoke

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 15:11 GMT 15:11 UK

Oh Dear what have we come to when such an item as this is considered newsworthy

John Hey, Ashton under Lyne

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 15:06 GMT 15:06 UK

Stephen Fry has always been one of the more sensitive fascists. He's touted himself as some sort of intellectual genius and I feel sure the only reason he has a following on Twitter is because of his celebrity, in my opinion based only on his performances is the now little shown BBC comedy series - Blackadder. His twitter blogs are boring to me. If he's going to write for the world he must learn to take criticism on the chin. He is after all proper "establishment" now.

David Smith, London

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 15:06 GMT 15:06 UK

Spmebody on here asked what is a twitter?

Tony Blair.

he's just a twit and followed by Gordon Brown and David Cameron and the rest of MP twits.

So there's your answer

Nick, S/Shields

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:56 GMT 14:56 UK

Another examle of lazy journalism from the BBC. This is not news, and suggests to me that I am wasting £13 a month on my licence fee.

Isobel, Manchester

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:54 GMT 14:54 UK

i can't see how this is even a story.
im sorry but twitter is something the media seem to think is really cool and young. i cringe when presenters say it on tv.
its basically a dumbed down version of other social networking websites like facebook and bebo, and because its dumbed down its more accessable to an old generation.
no one i know uses it, i use facebook, but i can't see why people seem to be interested in what stephen fry "tweets" when he's stuck in a lift.

robert greally, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:52 GMT 14:52 UK

It never had any magic anyway - pretty rubbish system.

Rincewind Wizzard, London, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:46 GMT 14:46 UK

.....or is it just losing its twits!

Denis, Leeds

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:45 GMT 14:45 UK

A big deal has been made of Mr Fry using Twitter but in all honesty who really gives a monkey? It is people like Mr Fry who have this inflated sense of their own worth who then spout off about things in the belief that they matter more than the rest of us. Mr Fry doesn't!

He's just another Z grade celebrity from a very privileged background who has never got his hands dirty in the "real" world.

As such what make Mr Fry think that he matters is ego.

I want news to be about more than celebs,

john mcjohn, brechin, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:43 GMT 14:43 UK

In the past I've tried my My Space, Twitter and Facebook for a short time. Now I've decided I already have a life and an email address, and returned to it.

c smith, london, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:39 GMT 14:39 UK

astounded at the ignorance of some of the posters on here!

- they dont know the man at all, then tell us what kind of a person he is?
- they dont know that it is stephen fry himself posting, yet read it as gospel?
- "we love you stephen!" how?
- 900,000 followers just means his publicity company is working, it is more often called MARKETING

ive noticed the BBC moving more and more towards twitter, mentioning it at every opportunity, would the beeb be using twitter for the same reasons?

[denzil69]

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:34 GMT 14:34 UK

These 'twits' really need to get out more!

Les Crossan, Wallsend, United Kingdom

Added: Sunday, 1 November, 2009, 14:33 GMT 14:33 UK

"...Personaly i love it, it makes me feel famous. bring it on people!!"


'Feel famous'?

A person is either famous or they're not

I can just about (and only just) understand why small children might want to 'be famous'

What I don't understand is why any adult should get some sort of satisfaction out of 'feeling famous'

Hankering after imaginary fame, fame for no reason?

What's missing in real life I wonder?

[Artemesia], United Kingdom