It must be because celebrities bring a certain “cool” quality to social networks and microblogging services — cool in the way the mass of non-techies view things, at least — that we (the media) seem to pay so much attention to them. You see, even I’m writing about it, and I stopped following Stephen Fry’s Twitter account months ago. He didn’t notice, because I didn’t bother to slag him off and test his incredibly thin skin. I’m quite surprised that Stephen, who at least gives the impression of being super-intelligent, didn’t realise that building a huge following on the Internet had significant potential for being criticised. Some people are even Read more »