bin laden

I'm watching CNN here in the studio and I saw something interesting scroll by:   "Bin Laden's death sets Twitter record; 5,102 tweets/second"

We all know that Twitter has become a very important resource for worldwide breaking news, and the information that is shared has, in a lot of ways, helped to change the world. Last night, thousands of people (if not millions) took to their Twitter accounts to report on and gather information about the death of Osama bin Laden. But there's a whole other side to the social media site that goes on s

Sohaib Athar was vacationing in the mountains outside of Abbottabad, Pakistan, late Sunday night when he heard the sounds of helicopters closing in. The IT consultant had his laptop with him, so he began live-tweeting what we now know were U.S. special forces descending upon Osama bin Laden's hideout. "Uh oh, now I'm the guy who liveblogged the Osama raid without knowing it," Athar concl