Oldest Twitter user ever
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- Who
- Ivy Bean
- What
- 104:324 year(s):day(s)
- Where
- United Kingdom (Bradford)
- When
- 28 July 2010
Born on 8 September 1905, Ivy Bean (UK) was 104 years 324 days old when she died on 28 July 2010. She had signed up to Twitter in May 2009 and went on to post more than 1,000 tweets, to some 56,000 followers, before she passed away.
Ivy tweeted on a number of different topics, such as her favourite meals, news about her family and her friendship with British celebrity Peter Andre (she was a big fan of his music).
She first learned how to go online in 2007, while she was in a care home, and joined Facebook the following year.
As her Twitter profile rose, she attracted the attention of several famous names, and in early 2010 she was even invited to visit the then British prime minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah at 10 Downing Street in London.