BS: You can fry your twitter

Subject: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 01:35 PM

So Stephen Fry has been getting the Mudcat sort of treatment on Twitter.

Will he stop twatting about and stop twitting ?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8335793.stm

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 01:47 PM

I only use twitter to show the few mini-gigs I've done as an amateur - but I did get in early with my own name, having heard about the said Stephen Fry using it. Last I heard, the cyclist, Lance Armstrong, had the most followers.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 02:11 PM

"You can fry your twitter

Ouch!!!

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 02:42 PM

I enjoy Stephen on things like QI and some BeeBR4 games shows. But I have no desire to follow his every utterance on a thing like Twitter.

I understand he has bipolar disorder, but for heaven's sake, he cannot really have expected every tweet to be all "We love you Stephen" can he? Nobody can be expected to be witty and entertaining 24/7. He and any complaining Tweeter should know that.

I agree with the last poster in that report. This is not News. It is an embarrassing pity party.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:00 PM

And I thought this would be light hearted. Bah humbug

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:12 PM

Sorry the Villan

Shall we build a tweeting Fry wicker man and burn it for halloween?

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:28 PM

What a non-story.. Yes, all Fry had to say was the obvious: "I'm not a professional comedian 24/7, in my spare time I'm a human being"

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:28 PM

Thats not bad idea

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:36 PM

I wonder if twitchers disseminate sightings via twitter?!

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:39 PM

Well when they get a sighting, they tweet and then twitch and then twit ta woo

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:41 PM

hauling in a truckload of wicker

whose bringing the petrol?

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:47 PM

How about some gas instead? (;<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:49 PM

...be mindful of hedgehogs, VT, and any "twit ta woo", too!

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 03:53 PM

And the Maestro of Methane graces our thread with his ..... auspiciouness

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 04:15 PM

Maybe if you replace the i with an a...

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 04:22 PM

spaw ish ess ness

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Nov 09 - 02:45 PM

I love it!

Stephen Fry Tweet with over 900,000 Twits following him, only earns 16 posts on Mudcat.







oops! 17!

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 01 Nov 09 - 02:52 PM

Strange that isn't it

18 :-)

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 Nov 09 - 02:54 PM

yes... given the relatively high proportion of Twits we have on Mudcat, myself proudly included.












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Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 11:47 AM

Pan fried twitter, sounds tweet.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 02:55 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 04:18 PM

Fan Tried Pwitter, tounds sweet.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 04:37 PM

You're saying those who twitter are twits or twats?!

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 05:00 PM

hmmm I will have to ask my lawyer about that :-)

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 02 Nov 09 - 05:19 PM

Ever tried Twittering your fried fly?

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 08:54 AM

How about twittering cyber-tennis - those crazy links that only encourage us from someone's myspace to facebook and twitter, and back over...

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Stu
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 10:59 AM

Young Stephen Fry was quite bitter
when a bloke was bored by his twitter
he said: "My urge is to tweet,
from bench, sofa or seat;
I even twiddle my type on the shitter."

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 11:34 AM

Anything to oblige!

After ten years without, I tried a fritter.   It was vile!

Never again
Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Nov 09 - 12:25 PM

In primary school, I was a French knitter!

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: GUEST,Taliesn
Date: 23 May 11 - 11:37 AM

In some respect Ryan Giggs was entitled to his privacy. The Internet being so readily accessible for everyone can prove detrimental. If an individual makes a mistake, news of that mistake gets reported across the Internet in seconds. No news spreads faster than bad news, which means that reputations that have been built up over years can be ruined online within days. This can also be the case with petty malice or misguided revenge. I have a good friend who suffered such indignity due to some sick minded individual he once worked with creating a false profile of him on a social website.


Websites allow users to create accounts and post reviews, comments and photographs online. All websites are very powerful, and any page for you will inevitably be found in a search on your name.


It is wise to run a search of your own name every now and then on Google or likewise. In the case of my friend, The same username cropping up on various social networking sites and forums, all serving one purpose and one purpose only – to discredit him. We all need to consider protecting our reputation online. The Internet community can be stupid, Social networking websites are good for some and for keeping in contact, but they need to be used properly for them to work.
Used maliciously, they could have the opposite effect to the one desired, and then the damage done could be irreparable.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 May 11 - 04:05 PM

Maybe if Mr Giggs hadn't had an extramarital affair he wouldn't have had this problem. That wasn't a mistake - it was a deliberate act and he is now paying the price.

Why should he have the right to hide his transgression?

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 23 May 11 - 04:16 PM

Becuase the UK law say so Jacqui. :-) Hope you don't get sued.
Les

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: GUEST,Paul Burke
Date: 24 May 11 - 01:59 AM

Jacqui- eveyone is entitled not just to privacy, but to their own sexual morality too. That said, no one would be in the vaguest bit interested in Mr. Giggs' piccalilly if he wasn't paid an obscene amount of money and used it to fund a sod- you lifestyle. The real worth of a footballer isn't zero, but perhaps somewhere between a plumber and a security guard. But plumbers and security guards can't afford to hire QCs to get them privatised justice. He's paid that amount purely brcause he's of interest to the public, and the tabloids in the end put him in that position.

I think he should have chosen privacy and £25000 a year.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 24 May 11 - 03:11 AM

Well as the british newspapers are reporting it now, it makes no odds.

However the Judge ha s reinforced the decision for a very good reason. It's not about his name now, it's about stopping the press and news people from harrassing both parties and there familes etc.
So that part is definately in place.

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 24 May 11 - 04:17 AM

I've never tried Twitter, fried or not, but fondly remember fried SPAM from my school dinners & scout camps.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 24 May 11 - 04:21 AM

LOL what are you like RtS :-)

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: MikeL2
Date: 24 May 11 - 06:40 AM

hi

Everyone is entitled to privacy in their lifestyle,if they desire it. Trouble is only a few can afford it.

The Mp who announced it in the House should know. He is a "multi-millionaire" who according to his wife has had "26" affairs in his marriage.

But up until yesterday nobody had heard of him.....maybe he was jealous !!

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: You can fry your twitter
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 24 May 11 - 08:24 AM

It does make you kind of wonder if the guys revealed on these websites secretly enjoy being known as an unstoppable sex machine male ego and all that. Quite a few twits in twitter.