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."
Re:Inconceivable! (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, but some dumbasses started throwing eggs at Bieber, and Bin Laden was instantly old news.