Hugh MacLeod, of Gaping Void fame, is back on twitter

Filed as News on April 15, 2008 8:23 pm

by Matt Craven

Hugh MacLeod, only a few days after deleting his twitter account, is now back on the wildly popular social messaging service.

In his post announcing his return, Hugh wrote briefly:

Short answer: Too many people I do business with are also on Twitter. Being off it was impossible. My bad.

Hugh’s departure from Twitter was a major story on TechMeme with several responses from other sites and bloggers.

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  1. By Andy Merrett posted on April 16, 2008 at 1:51 am
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    Nice bit of publicity eh?

    Sorry, cynicism kicks in early mornings :)

  2. By Thord Daniel Hedengren posted on April 16, 2008 at 3:39 am
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    Rightly so though.

  3. By Andy Merrett posted on April 16, 2008 at 4:18 am
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    Which bit? :)

    Seriously, it’s good to have him back, but I get so many tweets that I may not have noticed he’d gone for such a short time if it hadn’t been all over the web.

  4. By Matt Craven posted on April 16, 2008 at 7:37 am
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    I agree..
    .m

  5. By charteuse posted on April 16, 2008 at 9:38 am
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    “My bad.”

    Quote of the day!

  6. By David Everitt-Carlson posted on December 3, 2008 at 9:03 am
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    I quit right after Hugh. And then was back almost as fast. Dem drugs is addictive…

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