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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. 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.