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Twitter has killed dozens of celebrities, and it proves that you should definitely not believe everything you read. The lack of credibility from the sender of these false rumors doesn’t stop them from getting retweeted and going viral. And unfortunately, death hoaxes on Twitter have become commonplace.

But Twitter isn’t all bad when it comes to getting the news about the death of a celebrity. When Heavy D died on November 8th, Twitter was the outlet at

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Dec 19, 2011 at 6:10 pm

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Saudi Prince Invests $300 Million In Twitter

Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, who owns 95 percent of Kingdom Holding, recently announced that he invested $300 million in the popular social media site Twitter.

According to reports, Prince Walid’s purchase was part of a strategy “to invest in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact.”

Twitter has been increasingly popular in the Arab world, where it was credited with playing

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Dec 19, 2011 at 5:26 pm

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Death Rumors Surround Rapper Lil’ Kim After Kim Jong Il’s Death

A death rumor about female Rapper, Lil’ Kim, began Sunday after Twitter users jokingly referred to the deceased North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, as “Lil Kim.”

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Dec 14, 2011 at 4:02 pm

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African Twitter War: Kenyan And Somali Armies Tweet It Out

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan soldiers and members of an extremist Islamist militant group have been fighting each other in Somalia since Kenya invaded two months ago. Now, their spokesmen are taking the battle onto Twitter, with taunts, accusations and insults being directly traded in a rare engagement on the Internet.

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Nov 23, 2011 at 3:37 pm

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Rapper Too Short Latest Victim Of Internet Death Hoax

After somebody edited rapper, Too Short’s WikiPedia page to say that he died of a heart attack, rumors of Too Short, real name Todd Shaw’s death quickly spread over the the internet.

After the rumor spread via Twitter, Too Short himself cleared them up on his Twitter account.