It was viewed millions of times - as was a back-up tweet - and its details, prior to the addition of the appended statement, were repeated by hundreds of media outlets across the world.
However, an appended statement signed by 44 scientists from 18 countries disputed the notion that there is a scientific justification for killing whales. .
Likely more important to the singer than the dollar amount: Universal will let Swift keep her future master recordings, which should revert to her five years after the release of each song, some sources say (Universal disputes these figures--see appended statement below).
Currently, Smith describes her illness as "better," appending the statement with, "I still have my painful moments".
All the presidents who came before this one, by contrast, appended signing statements to a total of only 600 sections of law.
When President Bush signed the appropriations bills into law, he appended "signing statements" asserting that the Commander-in-Chief had the right to collect intelligence in any way he deemed necessary.
This article was amended on 14 August 2014 to append a statement issued by the Israeli embassy in London.
Nas later appended his statement: "The people will always know what the real title of this album is and what to call it".
He appended a statement about the United States being the most powerful nation in world history with the phrase "that I know about".
The whole display has even prompted a small backlash, mostly in the person of Morrissey, the musician, who to a list of tour dates appended a statement disparaging the whole spectacle and questioning whether England had "ever been quite so foul with patriotism".
The agreement reached yesterday leaves the European Union's guidelines in place, but allows Israel to append a statement to the agreement saying that it does not accept the guidelines.
