Roger Ebert Twitter Reactions: Fans React To Movie Critic's Death

Twitter Reacts To Roger Ebert's Death
FILE - This undated file photo originally released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, shows movie critics Roger Ebert, right, and Gene Siskel. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. Ebert and Siskel, who died in 1999, trademarked the "two thumbs up" phrase. (AP Photo/Disney-ABC Domestic Television)
FILE - This undated file photo originally released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, shows movie critics Roger Ebert, right, and Gene Siskel. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. Ebert and Siskel, who died in 1999, trademarked the "two thumbs up" phrase. (AP Photo/Disney-ABC Domestic Television)

News of Roger Ebert's death Thursday hit Twitter with the speed and prolificness of the famed movie critic's own body of work. (It makes sense, as Ebert was one of Twitter's prized users, with over 800,000 followers and 30,000 tweets at the time of his death).

Now fans and followers such as President Obama, Stephen Fry, Steve Martin, Diablo Cody and others are remembering the late movie critic, who succumbed to cancer at age 70, through the social media website.

Launch the slideshow below to read through some of the most notable tributes.

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