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This tweet predicted Queen Elizabeth II's death a year ago, netizens hit back with theories

This tweet predicted Queen Elizabeth II's death a year ago, netizens hit back with theories

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Elizabeth, the longest-serving monarch of Britain, hasleftahugevoid behind her in the hearts of her millions of followers and family.When theentireworld ismourningherdeath, a viral tweet hastakeneveryone'sattention.

This tweet, which has become the talk of social media, predicted the death of the Queen a year ago.

ATwitter userwho goes by thenameOrunmilapredictedherdeathlastyearon August 24, as per theTweet timing.

''TheQueenof England isgoingtodieon September 8th Iseethisdatehovering above her, continue not to believe in voodoo you willsee." The tweet only predicted thedateandhadno specific year.

However, thetweetgarneredattentionafter theQueen'sdeathwhen another Tweet wasdoneby the same accountattachingtheoldone.'

''We cannotactor influence,justpredict,knowinadvancesometimes with agoodmargin oferror.ThereI wasnotabletoknowthetimeor thereason.''

The viral tweet was done in French and has so far garnered 6,930 retweets, and 16.4K likes.

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On September 9, after the Queen’s death, the account tweeted again: “We cannot act or influence, just predict, know in advance sometimes with a good margin of error. There I was not able to know the time or the reason [sic]."

However, many Twitterati's reacted with great shock, some called it a scam, while other micro-blogging site users proved how these fake predictions have also been done in the past too.

One user also explained how this type of tweet is done, ''Have a private account, post multiple predictions, delete the wrong ones and, on the right day, make public. Some have done it for football results in the past.''

"The account has 2 tweets in 2 years. This account was probably private with no follow until yesterday and the 364 other tweets were deleted before changing it to a public account (sic)," Another user wrote.

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