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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

Twitter co-founder does a good Gerald Ratner impression

Biz Stone
Twitter's Biz Stone issues a health warning. Photograph: Jeff Chiu

The Daily Mail has compared it to Gerald Ratner's famous comment that destroyed his cut-price jewellery empire. That might be over-stating it a bit, but Christopher "Biz" Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, has told the 500 million users of the micro-blogging site it is "unhealthy" to tweet too much. He said he reckons people should dip in and dip out – not slavishly and obsessively monitor the service – but didn't want people to leave altogether. "Obviously, we want you to come frequently," he said.

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