Ryan Tubridy desire and up it goes onto the site". He prefers books instead. A former member of Twitter, where he amassed more than 60,000 followers, was described by the "Irish Independent" as "one of Ireland's most famous Twits". Tubridy left the social networking and microblogging service on 9 August 2011, posting a late night farewell to his followers: "Dear Twitter, this is my last tweet. It's been lots of fun but I must leave. No drama, just not enough time. Thanks and take care. #goodbye. The Tubridy Radio Show and Late Late Show will have well attended Twitter accounts as I
Ryan Tubridy place which is so full of ego and bizarre resentment". Tubridy was also influenced by the "nerd made good" style of British broadcaster Chris Evans. Later he worked as a reporter for "Today with Pat Kenny", as well as occasionally presenting the radio news show "Five Seven Live". In the summer of 1999, Tubridy presented "Morning Glory" on RTÉ Radio 1 and in July 2000 he moved to "The Sunday Show". From 2002 until 2005 he presented RTÉ 2fm's morning breakfast show, "The Full Irish". The move to the morning by Head of 2fm John Clarke was seen as risky,