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:What about here at Slashdot? (Score:4, Interesting)
From the bottom of the page: http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml [slashdot.org]
Looks like a story about Kerry vs. Bush is the current comment champ.