'A true fighter': Final tweet announcing news of Chadwick Boseman's death breaks Twitter record

Chadwick Boseman stage social death record

30.08.2020 - 17:23

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Chadwick Boseman’s account has become the most-liked post in Twitter history.The social media platform made the announcement following the sudden, shock news of Boseman’s death, aged 43, from colon cancer.

Boseman had not disclosed his diagnosis – made in 2016 – to the public.The tweet announcing Boseman’s death was posted at 10:11 p.m.

on Friday 28 August. At the time of writing, it had more than 6.4m “likes” and 3 million retweets.“It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman.

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