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Former Telegraph diary editor Tim Walker reveals how a story about Stephen Fry led him to be buried under a tsunami of abuse.

This is for everyone," tweeted Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, in one of the most unexpectedly moving moments of Danny Boyle's opening ceremony. By "this" Berners-Lee meant the Olympics, but also his own invention. He hoped, he said, that the so-called "first social media Games", would "bring people to use the Web to understand each other… and look at each other from a more beautiful point of view. What a blissful idea. But the dream was dashed days later by the behaviour of a spectacularly charmless teenager, one " Rileyy69", whose tweets are an unending stream of abuse, threats and violent imagery — some of them directed at diver Tom Daley. Daley would be forgiven for joining the exodus of celebrities from Twitter, each exasperated by the invective they're forced to endure. Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton signed off on Thursday.

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Every other day, Twitter throws up some Hitler Diaries-style hoax that gets swallowed whole by whoever happens to be online at the time, then vomited back up again, minutes later, in a slurry of sorrys and mea culpas. The most common genre of collective gullibility is the celebrity death. Now add to that list the acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, news of whose demise was announced by a fake Spanish government account soon after 4pm yesterday afternoon, loudly lamented by the movie-loving Twittersphere for about 10 minutes, and then swiftly retracted by all and sundry, once they realised this was the same fake Spanish government account that recently tried to kill Antonio Banderas. Twitter has hastened the mad dash to be first, to get the exclusive, to be the one who writes "BREAKING" in front of their latest tweet and actually means it. On the other hand, is 10 minutes so long? As a resigning politician might say, mistakes were made — but Twitter helps to correct those mistakes almost instantaneously. The social network is a vast, fact-checking machine. News isn't just broken there; it's challenged, verified, sub-edited. In the long run, a moment's embarrassing error just emphasises the value of considered reporting. As long as unconfirmed tweets come with the disclaimer "unconfirmed", Twitter is a macrocosm of the newsroom.

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In he staged his first major solo exhibition, in conjunction with the publication of his first book Pictures , at The Design Museum and in received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York. Walker himself is a charming and passionate man, eager to discuss his work and happy to go off topic if he senses something interesting. As a photographer, I work on a scale. It is as if there is a sort of bell and some pictures will ring that bell louder than others. I think all the pictures in the Story Teller exhibition are pictures that have always instinctively been valuable to me for one reason or another.

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What was once illegal, and supposedly scorned by right-thinking members of society, became accepted to the extent that, in , same-sex marriage was recognised in law. Everett himself made the point to me that few, if any, of his contemporaries felt able to be honest about their sexuality until they had first established themselves. Looking back at the celebrity interviews I have conducted over almost 40 years, it makes me wonder if the public were ever quite as obsessive — and puritanical — about the sex lives of stars as some newspapers. Both have since come out and found contentment, but Chamberlain would, in his Dr Kildare days, get himself photographed with women; and Sher went so far as to get married to one. Liberace and Rock Hudson were afforded neither privacy nor dignity in their final days as they were dying of the so-called gay plague. He has since apologised. He seldom granted interviews and his private life had never been subjected to any media scrutiny.

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Former Telegraph diary editor Tim Walker reveals how a story about Stephen Fry led him to be buried under a tsunami of abuse. Extract from his new book: Star Turns. Waiting for his own guest to arrive, Gallagher had been struck by how Fry, deep in conversation with Serkis, appeared to be addressing his millions of followers on Twitter while not actually touching a single key on his mobile phone.

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