Twitter on Thursday revealed that a message acknowledging the death of ‘Glee’ television show star Cory Monteith was the most echoed tweet on the globally popular messaging platform this year.<\/p>\n
The message posted on Twitter about Monteith’s fatal drug overdose by co-star Lea Michele was re-tweeted more than 408,000 times from 133 countries, making it the “Golden Tweet” of 2013, according to the San Francisco-based Internet company.<\/p>\n
“Among the millions of affecting Tweets this year, there is something we call The Golden Tweet,” Twitter spokesman Gabriel Stricker said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
“It’s the most-retweeted Tweet of the year – the one that resonated most with millions of Twitter users around the world. In 2013.”<\/p>\n
A Twitter message announcing the death of “The Fast and The Furious” film celebrity Paul Walker in a car crash was second, having been re-tweeted 400,367 times, according to Stricker.<\/p>\n
The third most re-tweeted message was one fired off by One Direction band member Niall Horan rejoicing in having just turned 20 years old.<\/p>\n
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