The Twittering Mobs..

pettyfog · Nov 2, 2009

A Tweet Unleashes Vitriol on a User

LONDON — 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 television personality.
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But that little tweet set off a frenzy of vitriolic attacks and counterattacks on Twitter, drawing an untold number of people into an increasingly charged debate and thrusting brumplum — in reality a man from Birmingham, England, named Richard — unhappily into the public’s angry glare.
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Hmmmm 'If a tree falls in the woods.. and no one tweets about it..?'

pettyfog · Nov 21, 2009

And here's the follow-up:
'I would not say that I lost faith in Twitter, I would say that I lost faith in my ability to negotiate it,' says Stephen Fry

"I don't know about you but whenever I read a blog I do not let my eye drop below half the screen in case I accidentally hit the bit where the comments reside. Of all the stinking, sliding, scuttling, weird, entomological creatures that inhabit the floor of the internet those comments on blogs are the most unbearable, almost beyond imagining," he added, getting into his stride and echoing comments made by fellow comedian David Mitchell earlier this year about the standard of online commentary.

"Their resentment, their desire to be heard at the most vituperative level, at the most unpleasant and malevolent, genuinely ill-willed malevolent, level is terrifying and I am very often simply not able to cope with that," Fry said. "Twitter is usually not like that... [but] I found that the @ mentions were just getting... I could see these comments that would just make me upset."

"I have no excuse for getting upset. I am a public figure and should be strong enough and thick-skinned enough to take it but sometimes when I am a bit low I just could not take it and I kind of lost it for a while and thought, shall I commit twitticide? I have slowly eased my way back and it is great, but I just have to be aware of that issue."
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Well, there ya go! If you guys didnt catch that... public figures now have to put up with the crap.. and cant ignore it just by not looking at the tabloids or ch 4.

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