--- title: Robin Williams Dead: Twitter Thinks Robbie Williams Died description: Twitter users appear to mistakenly believe British Singer Robbie Williams (Take That) has died instead of Robin Williams canonical: https://time.com/3104965/robin-williams-dead-not-robbie-williams-twitter/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-12T21:04:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:23.737Z og:title: Twitter Users Mistakenly Mourn Death of Robbie Williams og:description: They seem to have mixed up the comedic actor with the British singer og:url: https://time.com/3104965/robin-williams-dead-not-robbie-williams-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twitter Users Mistakenly Mourn Death of Robbie Williams twitter:description: They seem to have mixed up the comedic actor with the British singer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Twitter Users Mistakenly Mourn Death of Robbie Williams  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 12, 2014 9:04 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 12, 2014 9:04 PM UTC [Some people on Twitter](https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=robbie%20williams&src=typd) appear to mistakenly believe that the British singer Robbie Williams has died instead of Robin Williams, the 63-year-old comedic actor who passed away Monday. The hashtag [#RIPRobbieWilliams](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RIPRobbieWilliams&src=tyah) suggests plenty of people are either getting their celebrities mixed up, or using a confusing diminutive when paying tribute to the late actor: Oh someone famous died - let me write a topical tweet [#RIPRobbieWilliams](https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPRobbieWilliams?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) [#angels](https://twitter.com/hashtag/angels?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) — Craig Evans-Bird (@EvansBirdTweets) [August 12, 2014](https://twitter.com/EvansBirdTweets/status/499270899460472832?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Robbie Williams – who is apparently alive and well – recently started a live tour called “Swings Both Ways,” which has performances coming up next month in Australia. (h/t [_The Daily Mail_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722856/RIP-Robbie-Williams-Twitter-users-mistakenly-pay-tribute-former-Take-That-singer-following-death-Hollywood-star-ROBIN-Williams.html)) **MORE:** [Complete Coverage of Robin Williams on TIME.com](http://time.com/3104915/robin-williams-dead/) **MORE:** [BBC Aired The Robin Williams _Family Guy_ Episode Just as News Broke of The Comedian’s Death](http://time.com/3104047/robin-williams-suicide-family-guy-episode-on-bbc3/) Robin Williams Dead: Twitter Thinks Robbie Williams Died ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3104965/robin-williams-dead-not-robbie-williams-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3104965/robin-williams-dead-not-robbie-williams-twitter/"},"headline":"Twitter Users Mistakenly Mourn Death of Robbie Williams","datePublished":"2014-08-12T21:04:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:23.737Z","description":"Some seem to have mixed up the comedic actor with the British singer","url":"https://time.com/3104965/robin-williams-dead-not-robbie-williams-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3104965/robin-williams-dead-not-robbie-williams-twitter/","name":"Twitter Users Mistakenly Mourn Death of Robbie Williams"}}]}] ```