Rihanna caused a Twitter storm after posting a message of support for Palestine to her 36.4million followers from her account on Monday morning.
The tweet simply read: #FreePalestine.
It was removed within eight minutes, but not before it had been retweeted thousands of times and had sparked a flurry of replies.
According to TMZ, sources close to the 26-year-old singer said she never meant to post it.
“She didn’t even realise it was a tweet until she started hearing from her fans,” a source told the website.
The singer was reading about the Middle East conflict online when she clicked a link, the source says.
Shortly after she then tweeted: “Let’s pray for peace and a swift end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! Is there any hope?…”
Rihanna’s not the first famous face to tweet and delete after getting political on the social media site.
Source: Mirror