{"id":15042,"date":"2022-11-09T18:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-following-elon-musks-takeover\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T18:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:06:42","slug":"stephen-fry-quits-twitter-following-elon-musks-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/stephen-fry-quits-twitter-following-elon-musks-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Fry quits Twitter following Elon Musk\u2019s takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen Fry has change into the most recent celeb to stop Twitter following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2018s takeover of the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>The UK actor, author, comic and broadcaster introduced his departure on Tuesday (November 8) by posting a picture of Scrabble letters, spelling out the phrase \u201cGoodbye\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fry had 12.5 million followers and was following 47,600 individuals himself. His account can now not be discovered on the positioning.<\/p>\n<p>Fry is considered one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/these-are-all-the-film-and-tv-stars-who-have-quit-twitter-following-elon-musks-takeover-3344929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quite a few high-profile figures to stop the platform<\/a> in latest days, with many citing Musk\u2019s takeover as the primary cause for his or her departure.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3346071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3346071\" style=\"width: 1352px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3346071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-17.49.59.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1352\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-17.49.59.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-17.49.59-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-17.49.59-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-17.49.59-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-09-at-17.49.59-1068x600.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1352px) 100vw, 1352px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3346071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Fry introduced his departure from Twitter with a picture. CREDIT: Twitter\/Stephen Fry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/whoopi-goldberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> was among the many stars who joined the mass exodus. Explaining why on Monday\u2019s (November 7) episode of her present\u00a0<em>The View<\/em>, she mentioned: \u201cIt\u2019s been a bit over per week since Elon Musk took over Twitter and this place is a large number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m getting off today because I just feel like it\u2019s so messy, and I\u2019m tired of now having certain kinds of attitudes blocked now getting back on. So I\u2019m gonna get out, and if it settles down enough and I feel more comfortable maybe I\u2019ll come back. But as of tonight, I\u2019m done with Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Model Gigi Hadid additionally not too long ago shared that she had stop the platform, describing Twitter as a \u201ccesspool of hate and bigotry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a long time, but especially with its new leadership, it\u2019s becoming more and more of a cesspool of hate and bigotry,\u201d she wrote in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gigihadid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0publish, \u201cand it\u2019s not a place I want to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can discover a full checklist of the celebrities who&#8217;ve left Twitter (thus far) under:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amber Heard (<em>Aquaman<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ken Olin (<em>This Is Us<\/em>\u00a0producer)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Toni Braxton (R&amp;B singer)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Shonda Rhimes (<em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>T\u00e9a Leoni (<em>Madam Secretary<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sara Bareilles (<em>Waitress The Musical<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Brian Koppelman (<em>Billions<\/em>\u00a0showunner)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Alex Winter (<em>Bill And Ted<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Mick Foley (WWE legend)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Ellen Pompeo (<em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>David Dastmalchian (<em>The Dark Knight<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Suicide Squad<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Gigi Hadid (Model)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Whoopi Goldberg (<em>Sister Act<\/em>)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Laura Benanti (<em>Younger<\/em>)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Rob Reiner (<em>The Wolf Of Wall Street<\/em>,<em>\u00a0This Is Spinal Tap<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, <em>Frozen<\/em> star Josh Gad additionally revealed that he was contemplating leaving the app, writing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshgad\/status\/1586152046771638274?s=20&amp;t=zlhlFO9X8G5f_k49aEPcnA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest publish<\/a>: \u201cLeaning toward staying, but if today is a sign of things to come, not sure what the point is. Freedom of speech is great. Hate speech intended to incite harm, (with no consequences) ain\u2019t what I signed up for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Stephen Fry has change into the most recent celeb to stop Twitter following Elon Musk\u2018s takeover of the social media platform. The UK actor, author, comic and broadcaster introduced his departure on Tuesday (November 8) by posting a picture of Scrabble letters, spelling out the phrase \u201cGoodbye\u201d. Fry had 12.5 million followers and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}