Osama bin Laden is dead
While we were about to call it an evening, we received a text message from a friend stating that ‘Osama bin Laden is dead.’ It’s difficult to believe that we had not heard of Osama bin Laden’s death until now, but we took to the interwebs, more specifically Google’s realtime search, to see if there was any internet chatter on Osama bin Laden’s death.
Sure enough Tweets are rolling in from all over stating the news about bin Laden’s death:
blainecapatch osama bin laden is DEAD? then who was driving my cab?
Twitter – 3 minutes ago
ewwhitscaroline they killed osama bin laden ?:o or whatever his name is ?
Twitter – 23 seconds ago
mattliguori Why does channel 5 say “USAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD” – is Usama a different way of spelling Osama or are they just being stupid..?
Twitter – 24 seconds ago
iamwithrob RT @BBCBreaking: Osama Bin Laden is dead, says US
Twitter – 24 seconds ago
mike_woo89 This death of Osama Bin Laden might have start a war…but it’s still not totally confirmed that he actually dead until evidents is proven.
Twitter – 24 seconds ago
cam2000deluxe The twitterspere tells me Osama Bin Laden is dead – Muammar who? #fb
Twitter – 24 seconds ago
Wizardofsmiles Not 1 but 2 black cats crossed my path on the way home today..Then I turn the TV on to see Osama Bin Laden is dead.. Bad luck my foot.
Twitter – 24 seconds ago
We then turned to the major news stations to confirm the social media chatter and sure enough, there it was from http://www.guardian.co.uk:
Osama bin Laden is dead, Obama announces
Osama bin Laden, the criminal mastermind behind al-Qaida and the world’s most sought-after terrorist since the attacks of 11 September 2001, has been killed by a US operation, President Barack Obama will announce late on Sunday night.
Osama’s body is in possession of the US, having been killed in Pakistanas the result of a US special forces and CIA operation, according to the first leaks of reporting from the US television networks.
President Obama is to make a highly unusual Sunday night live statement to announce the news, around 11pm eastern time.
Richard Adams from the guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 May 2011 04.00 BST
So social media is quickly becoming our go to spot for breaking news, even before the main stream media! It just moves quicker.
Picture courtesy of Paul Keller with Attribution