104 years old, Ivy Bean, Twitter’s Oldest User

Ivy Bean is 104 years old pensioner who lives at Hillside Manor Residential Home in Bradford, West Yorks. She already has a profile on Facebook, and with little help from Geek Squad agent, Martin Dix, she signed up for Twitter (@IvyBean104). She is perhaps the oldest person on planet earth to publish her updates on the microblogging site.

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At the time of writing this post, she had around 14,067 followers with 33 updates. It’s not very important if she is the oldest user on Twitter or not, but it’s really hard to find someone of her age willing to learn and try new online services. She is a source of inspiration to all those who say they are too old for the internet. Kudos to Ivy Bean!

This post was published by on May 21, 2009

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  • http://www.3q.co.za Jacques Snyman | 3Quotes

    She has just garnered another follower thanks to this post of yours! If Ivy can do it, so can we!

  • ' Ruby Rasir

    i'm sos glad to read about ivy…I'm 87 (to be 88 in july 2010 and am on my 3rd computer in7 years (my friends think i'm crazy for trying so hard to understand them. I'm also an art student, but now have a.m.d . so can't see ti read small print. am still trying to do my best.

  • ' Ruby Rasir

    i'm sos glad to read about ivy…I'm 87 (to be 88 in july 2010 and am on my 3rd computer in7 years (my friends think i'm crazy for trying so hard to understand them. I'm also an art student, but now have a.m.d . so can't see ti read small print. am still trying to do my best.