Rihanna’s Palestine Tweet Gets 7,000 Retweets Before She Deletes It

Rihanna, fresh from livetweeting the World Cup, sent out a slightly more charged tweet Tuesday morning:

She deleted it about shortly afterward, but not before it garnered about 7,000 retweets.

As many were quick to point out, Rihanna is the second public figure after Dwight Howard to tweet the hashtag before thinking the better of it:

Apparently the hot celebrity trend is to show support for Palestine and then delete it pic.twitter.com/f138ceHxAY

— Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa) July 15, 2014

[h/t BuzzFeed]

[Image via ANDRE DURAO / Shutterstock.com / Tweet screengrab via Anthony De Rosa]

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