Celebrities tweeting from beyond grave – Since Twitter first launched in 2006, it’s grown to become one of the biggest social media platforms in the world. There are over 500 million accounts on Twitter, with 200 million of those accounts boasting an active status.
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Thanks to the famous blue verification seal, celebrities have taken to Twitter as an official forum to voice their opinion, share anecdotes and post selfies. Several of these celeb accounts, though, may have attained an inactive status due to lack of interest, busy lives, or worse…. death.
Digital graveyards have become common on social media; accounts which are kept active post-mortem for friends, family, or fans to post eulogies or sympathies to the deceased. When a Twitter account is still online after the death of its user, people may tweet @ the username with support, kind words, and condolences. When the deceased user is a celebrity, the account might become a living memorial to the celebrity, one that fans can check on from time to time. Oftentimes, the deceased’s account will sit dormant with their last tweet still standing as the most “recent” post. Dormant accounts includes celebrities such as Ryan Dunn, Whitney Houston, Cory Monteith, and Lee Thompson Young. Countless websites have been dedicated to the last tweets of celebrities before they passed away; tweets ranging from comments about the cheesy ‘Sharknado’ movie to appeals for world peace.
But what happens when a dead celebrity’s Twitter account is still posting and active even after the account user has passed? Some will see it as insensitive, while others may see it as an honorable way to use the celebrity’s fame to bring attention to other projects, promotions, and activities. Here, we’ve compiled information on the top eight Twitter accounts that still act as the voice of the celebrity even after they have gone to the grave. Whether you think it’s tasteless or creative, the proof of the eternal fame of these celebrities is through their Twitter accounts, with their usernames immortalized forever -or at least as long as Twitter remains popular…
8. Elizabeth Taylor – @ElizabethTaylor and @DameElizabeth (March 2011)
Elizabeth Taylor was born in 1932 and got her first big break in 1944. When she passed on in 2011, the world lost one of Hollywood’s greatest actresses and political advocates. Even though she was dealing with a myriad of health problems towards the end of her life, she made herself quite a presence on social media before finally dying from congestive heart failure. The Twitter account she used was @DameElizabeth, which is still active, and now, her trust fund has set up a separate account for activism and charity at @ElizabethTaylor. This just goes to show that even in death, Taylor is still able to make the world a better place by bringing more awareness to social and world issues that affect us today.
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