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The news was published on Bean's Twitter account, @IvyBean104, which regularly informed followers about Bean's deteriorating condition over the last couple of days.
"Ivy passed away peacefully at 12.08 this morning... Im sorry it took me so long to tell you but it was a very difficult thing to do," the tweets said.
Bean was a popular Twitter user with more than 56,000 followers at the time of her death, as well as a fairly active one, with more than 1,000 tweets. As one might expect, Bean was also an avid Facebook user; she joined at the age of 102.