Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record 167
gabbo529 writes "Twitter has been a source of breaking news since its inception five years ago, and the social network was used at a high rate last night with the death of Osama Bin Laden. [Sunday night] saw the highest sustained rate of Tweets ever. From 10:45 p.m. to 2:20 a.m. ET, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second."
First joke I saw tweeted. (Score:5, Funny)
A joke only UK readers will get:
Who says you can't take a Bin out on a bank holiday.
Brum tish!
Inconceivable! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Inconceivable! (Score:5, Funny)
It took the death of the most hated man alive
What? Justin Bieber died?
Re:First joke I saw tweeted. (Score:5, Funny)
My favourite was the commented posted (I think first on Reddit, but then circulated on Twitter) "At least they let him see the Royal Wedding".
Re:Inconceivable! (Score:2, Funny)
He said "most hated MAN".
Not twitter, but first comment I saw on 4chan... (Score:4, Funny)