When Elizabeth Taylor used Twitter to tell the world she was having heart surgery, it was a momentous occasion.

No, really, it was. It was the perfect meeting of old-school Hollywood glamour and cutting-edge social networking. And the good news is that it hasn’t finished yet – Elizabeth Taylor has used Twitter yet again to announce that her surgery was a success.

Elizabeth Taylor only left a brief message, though – not because she’s unwell, but because she’s now so into social networking that she also had to update her Facebook status to ‘Elizabeth is feeling wicked nang’ and upload a video of her getting her bum out onto YouTube.

Remember when Elizabeth Taylor told the world that she was having heart surgery on Twitter earlier this week? We don’t know about you, but we’ve been worrying ourselves fraught about her lack of communication ever since.

Waiting for Elizabeth Taylor to update her Twitter feed has been like waiting for Apollo 11 to emerge from behind the moon – or at least it would have been like that if modern technology hadn’t left us with a cripplingly microscopic attention span, because what actually happened was that we worried about Elizabeth Taylor for about 12 seconds and then got distracted by a funny video of a cat falling into a bucket.

But we digress, because there’s good news! Elizabeth Taylor has finally updated her Twitter feed! Her surgery was a success! Unless it was Elizabeth Taylor’s ghost who updated her Twitter feed, in which case the surgery was a catastrophic failure! But that doesn’t seem like it’d be particularly feasible! Here’s what Elizabeth Taylor wrote on Twitter overnight:

“Dear Friends, My heart procedure went off perfectly. It’s like having a brand new ticker. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes. I know they all helped. Love you, Elizabeth”

We can’t tell you how relieved we are to see that Elizabeth Taylor is well enough to distil her every passing thought into 140-character soundbites for the benefit of 165,000 lonely people. Given her old age, Elizabeth is probably still feeling a little frail post-surgery, so we shouldn’t expect too much from her in the way of updates right now. But give it a few days and we’re sure that she’ll be back to her best, thrashing out message after message about what she thinks of journalists and Dancing With The Stars and any other mental crap that’s rattling around her brain at any given moment in time.

And, yes, we’re fully aware that we’ve now dedicated two entire stories about Elizabeth Taylor’s last two Twitter updates. We may as well not stop now – join us next week for a 1,500-word essay on Elizabeth Taylor’s next tweet, hotly rumoured to be something along the lines of “I quite like wearing shoes sometimes.” It’s going to be EXCITING!

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