San Francisco - 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.
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.
“Among the millions of affecting Tweets this year, there is something we call The Golden Tweet,” Twitter spokesperson Gabriel Stricker said in a blog post.
“It's the most-retweeted Tweet of the year - the one that resonated most with millions of Twitter users around the world. In 2013.”
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.
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. - Sapa-AFP