Great-grandma Twitterbug Dies at 104
Ivy Bean's tweeps numbered 56,000
July 28, 2010
After tweeting regular reports about her digestive progress with the fish and chips served every Friday at Hillside Manor nursing home in Bradford, England, Ivy Bean has died at age 104. Some 56,000 tweeps followed her after more than 1,000 tweets over nearly two years.
"I went arse over tip into the grave," Bean tweeted from the other side on ivybean104. "Now everything is right as rain. I'm away with the mixer. I'm a happy bunny with no more dingleberries."
Bean enjoyed tweeting about how nursing home staff would encourage her to stay hydrated. "If the staff make me drink any more i will be floating," she wrote a couple of months before her death. She noted that other residents often shunned juice in favor of lager as they lounged in the garden.
Often in the morning Bean would tweet: "Hello everyone, are you enjoying the sunshine today?" Her last tweet on July 6 noted, "going to have my lunch now will be back later."
Now that's a long lunch.
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