My Twitter Class of '08
I’ve been playing with this micro blogging tool called Twitter for the last couple of months now. Not just thoroughly addictive, but useful as a news feed, for meeting people and online debates. If you want to find me on Twitter, you can by clicking here.
Amongst the hormonal teenagers, the witty journos and the inspired thought leaders that are tweeting away daily, is one rather unusual suspect: Stephen Fry. Perhaps, Fry is the last person you’d expect to find at the cutting edge of the foremost wave of the Internet – bound up as he is with notions of the stuffy, and rather backwards, lofty classes of England. But, the man made famous playing General Melchett and Jeeves is up on there, tweeting away day after day. And what’s more he’s got about 13,000 mates.
The advantages of this, I have decided, are many. I’ve learnt about his documentary (currently filming) The Last Chance to See, in which he travels the plains of Africa, equipped with his poetic prose and unbuttoned shirts, documenting some of the world’s most endangered species. Along the way, I’ve seen him comment on Ross/Brand, Blackadder, Schadenfreude and a number of wonderful, but precariously placed animals.
‘Africa,’ he announced online, ‘is a place of shuddering beauty, fillied with wonderful, delightful, happy people.’ ‘Uganda here for example, you feel you could stick a pencil in the ground and it would flower.’ – You can find out more about Stephen Fry’s dispatches here.
Twitter, I’d like to point out, is one of the best things that I’ve found on the Internet in quite a while – and even if I’m about three miles behind the sharpest of the geeks, I still think it’s worth a plug.
Or would that be a tweet?
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