--- title: How Twitter Users Thanked Maya Angelou description: After Angelou died Wednesday, the poet's inspiring prose spread quickly on social media. canonical: https://time.com/132141/maya-angelou-death-twitter/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-28T21:14:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:22.471Z og:title: Watch the World Thank Maya Angelou og:description: This interactive shows how the world reacted to the death of Maya Angelou og:url: https://time.com/132141/maya-angelou-death-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: Watch the World Thank Maya Angelou twitter:description: This interactive shows how the world reacted to the death of Maya Angelou twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the World Thank Maya Angelou by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross May 28, 2014 9:14 PM UTC by [ashley Ross](https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross May 28, 2014 9:14 PM UTC Famed poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou died Wednesday at 86\. The poet’s inspiring prose spread quickly on social media, as her fans tweeted notes of remembrance with the hashtag #ThankyouMaya. The interactive above shows how the reaction to Angelou’s death spread on Twitter. The interactive above shows how the world shared photos of Angelou on Twitter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/132141/maya-angelou-death-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/132141/maya-angelou-death-twitter/"},"headline":"Watch the World Thank Maya Angelou","datePublished":"2014-05-28T21:14:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:22.471Z","description":"This interactive shows how the world reacted to the death of Maya Angelou","url":"https://time.com/132141/maya-angelou-death-twitter/","keywords":["Living","Maya Angelou"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"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-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/132141/maya-angelou-death-twitter/","name":"Watch the World Thank Maya Angelou"}}]}] ```