BREAKING NEWS Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has passed away at the age of 86 after prolonged illness. More details as we get them
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John Pennington (@OfficialSkyNews) August 14, 2012That’s a fake account, with zero followers. That was retweeted almost 2,000 times in 10 minutes. Rest in peace tweets swiftly followed suit, as quite a few people, including Jake Tapper, fell for it.
RIP #MargaretThatcher One of the world's great conservative leaders! socyberty.com/government/for… #tcot #gop #teaparty #sgp #tlot—
Katy (@KatyinIndy) August 14, 2012
Truly saddened to hear of Margaret Thatcher's death. RIP, our dear Iron Lady. #fb—
Damon Lord (@DamonLord) August 14, 2012
RIP Margaret Thatcher. A towering figure in our history.—
(@GrantMerrill) August 14, 2012
Oh dear. #RIP Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady. A warrior for liberty. A patriot.—
Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 14, 2012
R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher, the first person I voted for X—
Sally Thomsett (@sallythomsett) August 14, 2012
"Margaret Thatcher,RIP. The Iron Lady has passed away at age 86…”
A Great Lady of my Home Country 🇬🇧
#LNYHBT—
☀CJ☀ (@csimm16) August 14, 2012
RIP Lady Margaret Thatcher. #IronLady—
Resist Tyranny (@ResistTyranny) August 14, 2012
Margaret Thatcher RIP
A woman with balls.—
Laura Louise (@LauraLouMakeup) August 14, 2012
Helen Gurley Brown yesterday, Margaret Thatcher today. #RIP—
Kate Kennedy (@kate_editor) August 14, 2012
RIP RT @OfficialSkyNews: BREAKING NEWS Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has passed away at the age of 86—
Marc Mantone (@mantone1) August 14, 2012
RIP Margaret Thatcher—
Simon Davies (@s1mon_d) August 14, 2012
#RIP Margaret Thatcher … the strongest woman of our lifetimes—
Larry Footer (@larryfooter) August 14, 2012
Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady and former Prime Minister passes away aged 86. #RIP. she was a pioneer. The lady never turned.—
madam-editor (@TheMadamEditor) August 14, 2012
RIP Margaret Thatcher—
Russell Norton (@russyork) August 14, 2012
OMG! #RIP RT "@katjaml: Margaret Thatcher dead. An era is over."—
Daniel Nagy (@DanielNagyHUN) August 14, 2012
However:
WHOOPS fake account apologies. deleting—
Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 14, 2012
PSA: @officialskynews is a fake. If @skynews or @skynewsbreak were reporting that Margaret Thatcher had died, it would be credible.—
Liz Heron (@lheron) August 14, 2012
I take that back. Long live Margaret Thatcher! #Hoax! RT @ask2recv: #RIP Margaret Thatcher—
AskAnd UShallHave (@Ask2Recv) August 14, 2012
Margaret Thatcher is not dead – @OfficialSkyNews is not a legitimate news account.—
Matthew Keys (@ProducerMatthew) August 14, 2012
People. I don't think Sky News would set up a brand new account to tweet that Margaret Thatcher was dead. Just a clue, yeah?—
Political Animal (@politic_animal) August 14, 2012
BREAKING: An account created to announce Margaret Thatcher has died announces that Margaret Thatcher has died.—
Luke Londo (@llondo) August 14, 2012
Sorry guys. I got fooled by a fake account. Margaret Thatcher is not dead.—
Busby MUFC (@BusbyMUFC) August 14, 2012
The last Thatcher death hoax was just a few months ago. How many more times will Thatcher “die”?
Margaret Thatcher has died every week for the past few years according to Twitter.—
Percy The Sheep (@DanWrexham) August 14, 2012
If I had a pound for every time Margaret Thatcher has died on Twitter I'd have enough to buy my council house.—
News Manc (@NewsManc) August 14, 2012
Sad news that Margaret Thatcher has died for the 17th time this year #twitterrumours #beoriginal—
Peter Searles (@Shenfieldpete) August 14, 2012
622 – Number of times Margaret Thatcher has been killed off by Twitter. Iron.—
(@OptaJoke) August 14, 2012
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