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Eddie Murphy  - Twitter hoaxes are all the rage, and last week a rumor spread on the social networking site that Eddie Murphy died while snowboarding in Switzerland. Thankfully, the Oscar nominee is alive and well.  Check out other celebs who have survived Twitter deaths.(Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

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Drake  - Shortly after false reports of Eddie Murphy’s death were confirmed to be indeed false, someone tweeted “RIP Drake,” triggering false reports that the Canadian rhymer met his untimely demise.(Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for ESPN)

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Denzel Washington  - Like Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington was reported, via Twitter, to have died following a nasty snowboard accident in Switzerland. In reality, Washington was filming a movie in Atlanta.  (Photo: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

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Will Smith  - Will Smith’s death on the web has come in several forms. In 2007, there was an internet rumor he died from a car crash. And in May of 2011, the fake Twitter death rumor mill had him dying him from a drug overdose, falling off of a cliff, and, again, a car accident.(Photo: Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup)

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Keenen Ivory Wayans  - An official-sounding tweet caused a stir when stating: "@CNN: Breaking News. Comedian and creator of In Living Color Keenen Ivory Wayans passed today in his Los Angels Home.” The retweet was discovered to be fake.(Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Aretha Franklin  - In 2010, a rumor on Twitter quickly spread that the Queen of Soul died from pancreatic cancer. She was actually recovering from an undisclosed surgery. She has since recovered.(Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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Ruby Dee  - The acting legend’s Twitter death rumor circulated simply because someone mistweeted. Someone told followers that Ruby Dee died instead of correctly stating that rapper Heavy D had passed away.(Photo: Mark Von Holden/Getty Images)

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Morgan Freeman   - Morgan Freeman was reported to be dead, via Twitter, in 2010.  And the person posting, @originalcjizzle, cited CNN as the source. After the news organization discredited the tweet, it promised to “aggressively investigate this hoax.”(Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Kanye West  - Maybe it was because West caused such ill will after stealing Taylor Swift’s shine at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. But not long afterward, he became the latest celebrity reported to be dead via Twitter. Tweets saying that West had been killed in a car accident were all over the web.(Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Bill Cosby  - Of all the celebrity who’s been falsely reported to be dead via Twitter, the comedic legend has probably had the most (at least four times). The most recent mistweet was sent in the summer of 2011. After the Cos got a call from his daughter, who’d phoned to check on him, Cosby sent a tweet stating: “To the people behind the foolishness, I’m not sure you see how upsetting this is.”(Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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Snoop Dogg   - Snoop fell victim to the death rumor mill.  It caused a small scare in the hip hop community, but the LBC rapper was alive and well. (Photo: John Shearer/Images for Bethesda Softworks)