Britain’s Ivy Bean, the oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104. Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service. Mrs Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook and very soon attracted attention for being the oldest “tweeter”.
Her celebrity followers included singer Peter Andre, Chris Evans and ex-prime minister’s wife Sarah Brown. “You could not dislike Ivy; she didn’t have a bad word to say about anybody. She was a real lady, an inspiration.” said Mrs Wright. Mr Andre, who met Mrs Bean in September 2009, said he was “saddened to hear that Ivy has passed away” and offered his condolences to her family. “She was a lovely woman who had a brilliant sense of humour and we have stayed in touch since we met.”
Soon after joining Facebook in 2007, Mrs Bean would receive 15-16,000 messages a day. She was introduced to Twitter one year later. Her tweets were mainly about her daily life and her friends. Her last tweet on 6 July read: “going to have my lunch now will be back later”.
She loved every minute of it. The media was a big part of her life. She would not have expected to go quietly.
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