{"id":2193,"date":"2009-10-31T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/10\/31\/stephen_fry_might_quit_twitter"},"modified":"2009-10-31T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:23:29","slug":"stephen_fry_might_quit_twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/10\/31\/stephen_fry_might_quit_twitter","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry might quit Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been reported that, after a bit of a tiff with a couple of his online followers, the comedian Stephen Fry is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/8335793.stm\">thinking of giving up on Twitter<\/a> (more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/oct\/31\/stephen-fry-leave-twitter-fans\">here<\/a>).  This all makes me think, &#8220;who cares?&#8221; &#8212; why would anyone want to keep up a running commentary on everything they do and condense it into just a few words each?  It seems like the most pointless activity ever.  Surely with an established writer and comedian like him, you want what he&#8217;s crafted, not to hang on his every word.<\/p>\n<p>I do use Twitter, but mainly to announce blog posts over Facebook and to draw attention to interesting websites and videos.  Even if I had the equipment, I couldn&#8217;t be bothered to Tweet my every thought.  Then again, as the Guardian reported today, it was instrumental in opening up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2009\/oct\/31\/the-power-of-twitter\">debate on the Trafigura injunctions<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, so it has its place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been reported that, after a bit of a tiff with a couple of his online followers, the comedian Stephen Fry is thinking of giving up on Twitter (more here). This all makes me&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[791,3796],"class_list":["post-2193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-stephen_fry","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-zn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}