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Oldest Twitter user dies
Posted on: Thu July 29, 2010
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LONDON: A 104-year-old British woman thought to have been the world s oldest user of Twitter has died, her nursing home said Wednesday.
Ivy Bean, who had about 57,000 followers on the micro-blogging site under the name IvyBean104 , died in the early hours of Wednesday.
During her final days, nursing home staff posted regular tweets on her condition before finally confirming the sad news with one which said: Ivy passed away peacefully at 12:08 this morning.
Pat Wright, manager of the Hillside Manor Residential Home in Bradford, northern England, said Bean was introduced to Twitter in 2008 after the home got some laptops which staff encouraged residents to start using.
She was just a normal mum and grandma that wasn t frightened of trying new things, Wright told AFP.
She would tweet about what she were having for her dinner, whether she d played any games but she wouldn t tweet when Deal Or No Deal (a television game show) were on, everything stopped then.
Bean s own recent postings included: I m having ham salad for tea and Had a visit from our Sandra yesterday, she brought me some parkin (cake) which we had with our cuppa, it was very nice .
Courtesy : The News