David Schneider's fans clamour for his return to Twitter

[dutchman]

Fans of David Schneider, the comedian and actor, have taken to Twitter to complain about the star's silence on the social networking site.



Schneider has been a fixture on the comedy circuit for the last decade, making regular and much loved appearances on the Alan Partridge series of television programmes, as well as playing small parts in feature films.

His fan base has grown particularly over the last year thanks to his regular postings on Twitter, the microblogging site. His dry, topical, usually left-of-centre humour has won him more than 90,000 followers on the site, all of whom receive his pithy jokes, all less than 140 characters long.

One gem, in the run up to the royal wedding, said: "If you're single, you're a "singleton". If you're married, you're a "marriedton". If you're in-between, you're a "Middleton" #royalwedding"

Another, displaying his love of football, said: "Capello says he only needs "100 words" to communicate with his players. Ferdinand only needs 2 to reply."

He is often used by BBC radio as a "talking head", giving his opinion on Twitter developments.

But his usual six or seven tweets a day habit has dried up since the end of last month, when he signed off on April 27, saying he needed to concentrate on writing a sitcom.

His fans have taken to Twitter to complain about the silence: "Hey @davidschneider have been missing your comedy – seems like you have been chained to your desk recently!", said one.

Another said: "Has anyone looked for @davidschneider in Abbatobad?"

"Looks like @davidschneider hasn't tweeted for a few days now, he must have his hands full"

In Alan Partridge, he famously played the character Tony Hayers, the fictional head of commission at the BBC who grows increasingly frustrated at Partridge's ludicrous ideas for comedy shows, including "Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank", "Inner-City Sumo" and "Cooking in Prison" before ending with the desperate idea: "Monkey Tennis", a term now widely used by television executives to mock their own industry.