Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @08:49AM from the almost-nothing-of-value dept.

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."

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Re:Inconceivable! (Score:5, Informative)

by Kamiza Ikioi ( 893310 ) writes: on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @09:42AM (#36009972)

Yeah, but some dumbasses started throwing eggs at Bieber, and Bin Laden was instantly old news.

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