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Bin Laden's Death Causes Twitter Record

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. First joke I saw tweeted. by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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".

    2. Re:First joke I saw tweeted. by cobrausn · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Clearly they have not seen Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

      Great, they got to shoot Osama Bin Laden and they never saw that movie. Now I have two reasons to be envious.

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  2. Inconceivable! by Drakkenmensch · · 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 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It took the death of the most hated man alive

      What? Justin Bieber died?

    2. Re:Inconceivable! by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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  3. Re:That's great by clang_jangle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I found the opening statement of TFS ("Twitter has been a source of breaking news...") kind of shocking. Does no-one read well enough to recognize a fluff piece from marketing when they see one, or do we just not care anymore?

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  4. Re:What about here at Slashdot? by AlphaBlade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the bottom of the page: http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml

    Looks like a story about Kerry vs. Bush is the current comment champ.

  5. Re:Room on the island? by silanea · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This man caused the deaths of many, and instigated a sense of fear that today still affects millions accross the world in security, and other issues.

    I cannot honestly say how much Bin Laden himself actually contributed to any loss of lives, but I can definitely say that any sense of fear along with that tide of intolerance was and is instigated not by some lone raving looney and his YouTube channel but by politicians on all sides of the fence. Osama Bin Laden has never posed any tangible threat to me. That puts him in stark contrast to the supranational police state that has been brought on us since 9/11.

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  6. Not twitter, but first comment I saw on 4chan... by cobrausn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Counter-Terrorists Win!

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