Twitter quitters: increasing numbers of celebrities leave the site
The rise of the celebrity ‘Twitter Quitter’ is rather ironic as it was high profile users of the site which catapulted it to global success in the first place. When world famous individuals such as Oprah Winfrey and US president Barack Obama, took to using the site in its early days, its popularity grew enormously.
Little Britain star, Matt Lucas, has become of the latest celebrities to tell his 565,000 followers that he was quitting the site for good, after a teenager tweeted a terrible joke about the death of his former partner Kevin McGee, who hanged himself in 2009.
While Ashton Kutcher, a former prolific tweeter, with more than 9.9 million followers, has also stopped personally tweeting, handing his account over to a team of media professionals, after a tweet inadvertently landed him in the centre of US paedophile scandal.
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Source: telegraph.co.uk
