HOAX: @USAINBOLT Usain Bolt tweeted about @msdhoni
TRUTH: He did not, rather the latest tweet on his timeline is one day old.
This was posted by a page Thebackbenchers which has a huge ‘likes’ of 20.1 Lakh people who fell in this hoax trap, 16000 liked it and 2200 shared it.
HOAX source: http://ift.tt/1UHtVej
TRUTH source: http://twitter.com/usainbolt http://ift.tt/1Rm0dFV
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