As you may be aware, I regularly use Twitter. I actually rather like it and the other day I witnessed, or as close as anyone could, Stephen Fry's departure from the world of Tweets.
I forget why but I was logged in when he was posting images of The Harry Potter set. At the time I thought this was odd and indeed when he later posted that he had to 'sit on the naughty step' I asked if it had been because of the images. Such things are SO ridiculously protected.
Anyway he didn't reply and then a fellow Tweeter spotted him in town. No great shakes, except that the post reminded me to look him up, literally minutes after he posted 'Bye Bye' and closed the site.
Actually, I rather think his (not unprecedented, and hopefully temporary) departure was precipitated by the storm in a teacup over his remarks about straight men and women's attitude to sex as opposed to gay men's, which were originally presented in an Attitude interview that probably would have seemed more humorous at the time than it did in print - and which then got further taken out of context by the mainstream press in order to portray him as an unreconstructed misogynist.
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You are quite right of course, Scott, although at the time I had no knowledge of furore he had caused among the female Daily Mail readers. I think it was very much one-thing-after-another that made him throw his rattle out of the pram. I am sure that he will return as soon as the autobiography starts it's publicity campaign.
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