Twitter’s oldest user, Ivy Bean, dies
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A Twitter member who was thought to be the oldest member of the micro-blogging site has died aged 104.
Ivy Bean from Bradford, who became the oldest person to join both Facebook and Twitte,r has died at the age of 104.
An announcement was made on her official Twitter page, @IvyBean104. “Ivy passed away peacefully at 12.08 this morning. I’m sorry it took me so long to tell you but it was a very difficult thing to do.”
The great-grandmother had been unwell for a number of weeks and tweets appearing to be from Pat, the manager of Ivy’s care home, said: “Hi everybody its Pat. OUR IVY IS HOME she is still unwell but happy to be back she sends her love but she is tired so you still have me,” last Wednesday.
On Friday she posted: “Hello this is Pat again, sorry to tell you all this but Ivy is very poorly at the minute, we are all hoping she gets well soon.”
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Peter Andre is believed to have phoned the centenarian before her death and messages of love and support had been sent to her in her final days.
In March Ivy Bean visited Downing Street to meet with the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown and also met Peter Andre as part of his TV show Peter Andre: The Next Chapter, describing the singer on Twitter as “good looking” and saying that Gordon Brown “wasn’t as good looking as Peter”.
She also wished Peter Andre’s daughter Princess a happy birthday through her Twitter account.
Her name is currently the third most popular trending topic on the site in the UK.
Twitter legend Stephen Fry tweeted earlier on Wednesday: “I hear the divine @IvyBean104 – the oldest twitterer – is not very well and needs our best wishes.”
Ivy Bean was the oldest person to join Facebook when she was 102.
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