Thousands of fans around the world have paid tribute to David Robert Jones, better known as David Bowie, after hearing about his death. The tweets written in his honor have been all over the Twittersphere, including posts from other artistic, political and even religious figures. According to Twitter monitoring platform Visibrain, in just the first four hours after getting wind of his passing, more than three million tweets were generated with the hashtags #RIPDavidBowie, #Bowie y #DavidBowie.

Cher, Canada’s Prime Minister, Iggy Pop, Madonna and others, have paid their respects via Twitter. We’ve gathered the most notorious ones:

Cher

UK Prime Minister, David Cameron

His son Duncan Jones

Gene Simmons

The German Foreign Office

Iggy Pop

Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau

Madonna

Mark Ruffalo

Mick Jagger

Paul McCartney

Pharrell Williams and Courtney Love

President of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Roman Curia, Gianfranco Ravasi

Ozzy Osbourne

Yoko Ono

Stella McCartney

Cara Delevingne

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Translated by: edgar.martinez@sandiegored.com