Stephen Fry Kicks New Twitter to the Curb

British personality drops metaphor mic.

StephenFryPicIn case you missed it, over the long weekend one of the British celebrities with the largest Twitter followings decided to call it quits on that social media platform. Stephen Fry threw in the tea towel after his joke at the BAFTA Awards about the appearance of a certain winner provoked, as we’ve called it before, “tweetrage.”

In an explanatory post, Fry shared a wonderfully witty metaphor to describe the evolution of Twitter. Forget about critical mass; in his eyes, the social media platform has become a critical mess:

What fun Twitter was in the early days, a secret bathing-pool in a magical glade in an enchanted forest.

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