Those who think that Twitter is a sure sign of our Civilization’s impending collapse got some extra support recently. First, a little background. Stephen Fry is an autor, actor, poet and all around clever guy. He’s quite well known across the water, less so here, unless you’re a fan of the BONES TV show, on which he did several spots as a psychiatrist assigned to check out the suddenly trigger-happy FBI guy. Fry tweets and has a lot of ‘followers’…. in the high hundred thousands if if read it right. One of the Tweetees commented that Mr. Fry’s tweets were, well, boring. Poor lad, he should have held his peace. Instantly, defenders were all over the guy, telling him what a jerk he was and that the Fry Tweets are pure poetry, awesome, huge and other encomia. Quite a number got really nasty. And then, soon after it all started, it was over. The twitterers had burned themselves out on this one and were now rushing off somewhere else, on news that Fry had made a cheese sandwich or something. There’s a lesson in here someplace, but I’m not sure what it is or where you can find it, other than what I said at the beginning. What’s that line?…”not with a Bang, but a whimper”. Or maybe a Tweet.