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World The ‘Iron Lady’ lives! Bogus Twitter account falsely reports Margaret Thatcher dead
Former British Prime Minister victim of Internet tomfoolery for second time.
By Christine Roberts / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 6:13 PM
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
The Iron Lady has fallen victim to yet another internet death hoax.
A Twitter account dubbed @OfficialSkyNews falsely tweeted Tuesday that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had died, setting the micro-blogging site ablaze with momentary confusion as users waited for verification of the news.
The account, which had over 30,000 followers and only 10 tweets at the time of its message, had no ties to Sky News.
But the short-lived hoax fooled several Twitter users, including ABC News' senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper.
"WHOOPS fake account apologies. deleting." Tapper later tweeted.
@producerMatthew via Twitter
The false Sky News account tweeted that Margaret Thatcher had died on August 14, 2012..
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