Fry urged to use Twitter 'for good and noble ends'

Stephen Fry has been besieged by requests to use the online social networking site Twitter “for good and noble ends” after more than 250,000 users signed up to follow his updates.

The rapid expansion of Twitter, which enables users to send 140-character updates to their “followers”, is the latest in a series of online social tools which are changing the way people communicate with the world.