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Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 3, 2011 @12:49AM 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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First joke I saw tweeted. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-03 00:53 · 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!
1. Re:First joke I saw tweeted. by symes · 2011-05-03 01:37 · Score: 4, 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".
Inconceivable! by Drakkenmensch · 2011-05-03 01:01 · Score: 4, Funny

It took the death of the most hated man alive to finally put an end to the supremacy of Justin Beiber tweets.
1. Re:Inconceivable! by mangu · 2011-05-03 01:33 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It took the death of the most hated man alive
  What? Justin Bieber died?
2. Re:Inconceivable! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-03 02:28 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  He said "most hated MAN".
Not twitter, but first comment I saw on 4chan... by cobrausn · 2011-05-03 02:32 · Score: 3, Funny

Counter-Terrorists Win!

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