Stephen Fry: 'I'll Tweet while it's fun!'

Stephen Fry: 'I'll Tweet while it's fun!'
Stephen Fry: 'I'll Tweet while it's fun!' (Image credit: PA Wire/PA Photos)

Stephen Fry insists he'll only keep on Twittering as long as he's enjoying it. The comedian recently caused a fuss by saying he might quit the social-networking site. "The point about Twitter for me is it was supposed to be fun and if it stops being fun then one will stop doing it - why would one do something that isn't fun?" he pondered. Stephen added he hadn't read any of the newspaper stories who'd written about his Twitter controversy. "Fortunately, I never read newspapers, I haven't read a newspaper for 12 years, literally I do not read them," he said. "Most people who know me know that so they don't tell me if there's a story going on that involves me, so I never know if someone's writing about me, which is such a pleasure." He went on: "With Twitter, when you get towards a million followers and especially if you're like me - I'm subject to moods - if I'm in a dodgy mood I will get terribly upset. "The point is I had to have a period of not looking at anybody else's tweets. I will still tweet for myself but for a period I won't look at anyone else's as I don't need that extra hassle."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.