If you have been on Twitter for quite some time, you would probably realize that faux death news are as normal as trending topics about Justin Bieber...well, maybe not. So on Thursday, when the internet went abuzz about Bindi Irwin being dead, it could just mean another false alarm.
Bindi, daughter of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, has been a trending news since June 14 for apparently having died at a young age. The search term "Steve Irwin daughter dies" has been toping search charts since Thursday. However, UPI explains that the error is due to a "trend hiccup."
"News that 14-year-old Bindi had passed away originated due to a 'trend hiccup,' a glitch that occurs when aggregators create trends based on erroneous word association patterns."
The whole death faux was in fact a problem with keyword searches. Bindi has originally been creating much buzz for her new film "Return to Nim's Island" and a spat with Hillary Clinton last January for an essay the 14-year-old wrote about world population, repots News Max.
The problem came in when people started searching for "Steve Irwin daughter" instead of plainly typing in "Bindi Irwin." The search got entangled with her father's untimely death, resulting in the search term "Steve Irwin daughter dies."
Steve Irwin, the famous crocodile hunter, died in 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray while swimming at Port Douglas' Batt Reef in Queensland, Australia. Steve was pronounced dead on the scene, leaving his wife Terri, son Robert and 8-year-old Bindi.
Following her father's footsteps, Bindi now works at the Australian Zoo as well as being a wildlife conservationist.
Proving that Bindi is far from being dead, the teen also posted a video of her from a recent trip to Hong Kong.
This should clear the rumors now, as well as push technology driven people to work through this search engine glitch. We wouldn't want another death hoax buzzing around.
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