Stephen Fry

It was discovered that I had at least five million bots following me.

Yes, it was.

It was just more amiable.

I compare it to a watering hole, a pool, a natural pool or lake somewhere in the countryside.

And you discover it's a great place to swim and you swim around and other people join in and you all swim and you wave at each other.

And then slowly more and more people join in and enjoy it.

And some of them pee in the public.

And then suddenly you see something very unfortunate floating towards you.

And then you sort of tread water and your foot touches the bottom and there's broken glass.

And the thing has become a pit and a stye and a horror.

And it just isn't fun anymore.

And so there were a couple of occasions where I, however one wants to put it, stormed off through my...

toys out of the pram however you like to say these things all just got fed up but I've always come back and I have to be honest part of it is just simply selfishness it's incredibly handy for self publicity purposes to have 12.4 million people and also you know for the purposes of one's friends who have

things they want to publicize and the various charities and so on, it's such an easy way to help them to get those, such a number of eyeballs onto their projects and causes.

If you can't stretch to that... You'll want one for all the family.

I think you mean Colm Toy Bean.

And it's worth saying that if you were to look online for a free download of the text from a wonderful source like the Gutenberg project, you will find that that's an older edition that isn't the complete letter.

The letter did have redactions or excisions until 1962 was the final full version.

Yes.

Do you know, there's a whole...